Fi-Tek: Crime Fighters
The threat landscape
“Adversaries matured faster than ever, innovating techniques and tools as well as finding creative solutions to circumvent modern defenses, all while staying laser-focused on their targets. Adversaries are streamlining their tactics, refining and scaling successful strategies, and learning from both their own and their colleagues’ mistakes and successes to conduct attacks with a business-oriented approach.” The above isn’t a line from the FBI or the latest Marvel Avengers movie; it’s a quote from CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report on cybersecurity. If it’s meant to alarm you, that’s OK, because it should.
Cybersecurity by the numbers
Here are a few stats on current cybersecurity trends: - Worldwide cybercrime costs are estimated to hit $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. (Statista) - 26 new adversaries tracked by CrowdStrike, raising the total to 257. (CrowdStrike 2025) - Cybercrime losses reported to the FBI’s IC3 increased by 22% between 2022 and 2023. (FBI) - In 2024 the avg cost of a data breach was $4.88M. (IBM) - Global cyber insurance premiums projected to grow from $14B in 2023 to $29B by 2027. (Munich Re) - When remote work is a factor, the avg breach cost is $173,074 higher. (IBM) - Average eCrime breakout time dropped to 48 minutes with the fastest at 51 seconds. (CrowdStrike) - Phishing accounts for over a third of email attacks. (Hornetsecurity) - Vishing attacks rose 442% between H1 and H2 2024. (CrowdStrike) - 78% of financial services organizations experienced ransomware attacks over the past year. (Bridewell)
Daily encounters and defenses
As we progress further down the technology path so will the criminals and nefarious entities. It’s not just individuals or small groups; it can be large, country-sponsored groups. We encounter attempts at cybercrime daily. The vast majority are prevented by security services on our devices, network software, firewalls, and hardware. Service providers and technology companies are working hard to employ the latest innovations to prevent and mitigate cyberthreats. The best result is one where you aren’t aware an attempt was even made.
Fi-Tek's approach
Fi-Tek strives to keep our clients safe from cybercrime each and every day. We employ layers of security measures and protocols to prevent unwelcome access. We also need our clients’ diligence as most breaches occur at the user level. The threats will continue but so will our dedication to preventing them. If all goes as planned, you won’t even notice.
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