--- title: "2025 Cloud Threat Hunting and Defense Landscape" url: https://daily.dev/posts/2025-cloud-threat-hunting-and-defense-landscape-zfqztk0x5 source_url: https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/2025-cloud-threat-hunting-defense-landscape type: article source: "Recorded Future Blog" published: 2026-05-31T07:44:45.450Z updated: 2026-05-31T08:58:49.029Z tags: ["security", "cloud", "ransomware"] reading_time: 14 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 2025 Cloud Threat Hunting and Defense Landscape **[Recorded Future Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/recorded-future-blog)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Insikt Group's 2025 cloud threat landscape report identifies five major threat categories targeting cloud environments: exploitation and misconfiguration, cloud abuse, cloud ransomware, credential abuse and account takeover, and third-party compromise. Threat actors increasingly use cloud-native tools and legitimate services to execute attacks without traditional malware, abusing APIs, storage services, and CI/CD pipelines. Notable emerging trends include attackers registering their own cloud resources for attack chains, declining effectiveness of DDoS against cloud environments, and growing targeting of LLM and AI services hosted in cloud. The report provides detailed mitigation recommendations covering IAM hardening, supply chain security, network controls, monitoring, and backup protection strategies. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A Candid Perspective on the Cloud Threat Landscape: A Recap from fwd:cloudsec EU](https://daily.dev/posts/a-candid-perspective-on-the-cloud-threat-landscape-a-recap-from-fwd-cloudsec-eu-rrzv5s0zv) · Tech Lead Digest · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#ransomware](https://daily.dev/tags/ransomware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/2025-cloud-threat-hunting-and-defense-landscape-zfqztk0x5)