Week of March 7th, 2025

Welcome to Your Cybersecurity Recap: a bite-sized weekly newsletter by cybersecurity enthusiasts, for cybersecurity enthusiasts.

Here are this week’s top takeaways:

The Top Cyber Threats of 2025: Is Your Organization Prepared?

Global events are heating up significantly in 2025, and organizations across all industries face a diverse set of security challenges. Proactive security measures need to evolve to meet the newest threats and safeguard business operations, privacy, and individual health and safety. Cyber military campaigns, targeted violent extremism, extreme weather events, espionage, and insider attacks are just a small selection of increasingly advanced threats emerging over the past few years.

Organizations must constantly monitor their attack surface to identify and block potential threats as quickly as possible. They must also try to minimize the attack surface area to reduce the risk of cyberattacks succeeding. However, doing so becomes difficult as organizations expand their digital footprint and embrace new technologies.

?? The Top Cybersecurity Threats of 2025 (So Far)

• Leverage Attack Surface Penetration Testing to fine-tune your organization's existing cybersecurity techniques, alerts, and responses to maximize the protection of your attack surfaces (and enhance the efficacy of future cybersecurity roadmaps for your organization.)
• Identify vulnerabilities across search engines, historical website records, exposed endpoints, public code repositories, employee Internet activity, mail misconfigurations, and more via Packetlabs' partnership with Flare.io

Hear more from our ethical hacker Isaac Privett on why continuous penetration testing that orbits around both innovation and actionable insights is critical to combat this year's top cyber risks.

Financial Industry Insights: Attacks on the SWIFT Banking System

The SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) banking system is used by banks and other financial institutions to securely exchange information about financial transactions.

Founded in 1973, SWIFT is headquartered in Belgium and serves as a standard communication platform that enables institutions across the world to conduct secure, standardized, and automated messaging for financial transactions. SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative, governed by its member financial institutions.

Fraud within SWIFT banking has grown significantly, fuelled by vulnerabilities exposed through digital transformation, insider attacks, and nation-state APT actors. Though SWIFT-specific attacks are fewer, they are highly impactful, with incidents averaging millions per heist. Enhanced by complex malware and insider access, recent attacks demonstrate the critical need for robust fraud prevention tools and swift response protocols to safeguard the SWIFT network.

?? Attacking the SWIFT Banking System

Financial services is one of the most lucrative industries for threat actors to target in 2025; if an attack compromises critical organizational files or its customers’ private information, the consequences can be both long-term and costly.

Packetlabs is a proud sponsor of financial sector-related events such as Money20/20–and is a selected board member of Chamber of Commerce’s Cyber.Right.Now. cybersecurity council, where we act as a trusted voice for government officials in order to shape cybersecurity policies. Learn more about our recommended services for the financial sector today.

Recent Posts From Our Ethical Hackers

Every month, our ethical hackers work to provide free resources so that your team can continue improving your organization's security posture.

Here are just some of our recent posts:

• "CVE Discovery" by Kyle Burns , Lead of Offensive Security at Packetlabs
• "The Role of a Pentester" by Denis Kucinic , VP of Operations at Packetlabs