What’s impacting the cyber threat environment in 2025?

In today’s landscape, staying ahead means understanding the factors underpinning the cyber trends dominating cyber discussions – with AXA XL’s cyber lead for APAC and Europe, Carlos Rodriguez, highlighting several major themes. AI is the first of these, he said, as the sector is seeing different losses amounting from AI technologies, including deepfakes and AI-augmented malware-as-a-service. “For example, there’s currently a tool called WormGPT which can generate very sophisticated malware that can open backdoors and create very realistic phishing campaigns.”