Hi r/netsec community,

Q4 2025 data, monitoring dark web leak sites and criminal forums
throughout October–December 2025.

Numbers:
- 2,373 confirmed victims
- 125 active ransomware groups
- 134 countries, 27 industries

Group highlights:
- Qilin peaked at 481 attacks in Q4, up from 113 in Q1
- Cl0p skipped encryption entirely in most campaigns — pure data theft + extortion via Oracle EBS and Cleo zero-days
- 46.3% of activity attributed to smaller/unnamed groups — RaaS commoditization is real

CVEs exploited this quarter (with group attribution):

RCE:
- CVE-2025-10035 (Fortra GoAnywhere MFT) — Medusa
- CVE-2025-55182 (React Server Components) — Weaxor
- CVE-2025-61882 (Oracle E-Business Suite) — Cl0p
- CVE-2024-21762 (Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN) — Qilin

Privilege Escalation:
- CVE-2025-29824 (Windows CLFS driver → SYSTEM) — Play

Auth Bypass:
- CVE-2025-61884 (Oracle E-Business Suite) — Cl0p
- CVE-2025-31324 (SAP NetWeaver, CVSS 10.0) — BianLian, RansomExx

Notable: DragonForce announced a white-label "cartel" model through underground forums. Operations linked to Scattered Spider suggest staged attack chains — initial access and ransomware deployment split between separate actors.

Full report
brandefense.io/reports/ransomware-trends-report-q4-2025/

With the news of Hundreds of orgs being compromised daily, I saw a really cool red team tool that trains for this exact scenario. Have you guys used this new white hat tool? Thinking about ditching KB4 and even using this for our red teams for access.

CVE-2026-34980 and CVE-2026-34990