We at Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team monitor over 900 APT (advanced persistent threat) groups and operations. At the end of each year, we take a step back to assess the most complex and sophisticated attacks that have shaped the threat landscape. These insights enable us to anticipate emerging trends and build a clearer picture of what the APT landscape may look like in the year ahead.
In this article in the KSB series, we review the trends of the past year, reflect on the predictions we made for 2024, and offer insights into what we can expect in 2025.
Review of last year’s predictions
The rise of creative exploits for mobile, wearables and smart devices
Our discovery of Operation Triangulation last year shed light on a unique attack chain involving exploits for Apple devices, including those operating on iOS and watchOS. These exploits were leveraging multiple vulnerabilities involving components such as WebKit and the XNU kernel, as well as the Apple processor.
As expected, we continued to observe attacks in 2024 involving exploits for Apple devices. For instance, in January, Apple shared that CVE-2024-23222, a remote code execution vulnerability in Safari’s browsing engine, may have been used in cyberattacks. In addition, this fall, Apple disclosed two more exploits that have most likely been used in the wild: CVE-2024-23225 for the XNU kernel and CVE-2024-23296 for RTKit.
As for Android devices, they also remain lucrative targets for so ..
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