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Cybersecurity 4 min read2025-12-15

New Year's Resolutions for Cybercriminals

Veracity Technologies Team
By Veracity Technologies Team 2025-12-15

Cybercriminals are making resolutions too this year. Spoiler alert: your small or mid-sized business is squarely on their list.

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While businesses set resolutions around growth and efficiency, cybercriminals are setting their own goals for the year ahead - and small and mid-sized businesses remain squarely on their target list.

What's on the Attacker's Resolution List

  • •Refine AI-assisted phishing: Attackers are increasingly using AI to write more convincing, personalized phishing content at greater scale.
  • •Target businesses with weaker defenses than enterprises: Small and mid-sized businesses remain attractive because they often have valuable data with fewer defensive layers than large enterprises.
  • •Exploit new AI tool adoption: As more businesses adopt AI tools quickly, attackers look for the governance gaps that rushed adoption leaves behind.
  • •Double down on credential theft: Stolen credentials remain one of the most reliable and scalable attack methods, especially against businesses without MFA.

What This Means for Your Own Resolutions

If attackers are getting more sophisticated and more automated, a business's own security resolutions need to keep pace - "we'll get to it eventually" is no longer a safe posture given how quickly attack methods evolve.

Practical Resolutions Worth Making

  • •Enforce MFA everywhere it isn't already required.
  • •Schedule your first security awareness training session of the year for week one, not "sometime in Q1."
  • •Get a professional assessment of where your current defenses actually stand, rather than assuming they're adequate.
  • •Build (or test) your incident response plan before you need it.

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Published 2025-12-15 · Last reviewed December 2025