Rapid technological innovation is greatly influencing the maturity of today’s threat landscape and the ways in which threat actors are choosing to target their victims. WMC Global expects global phishing attacks in 2025 to be heavily influenced by AI and emerging technology which will allow scammers to scale their campaigns efficiently. The rise of Rich Communications Services (RCS) messagingis also expected to present new smishing challenges as it bypasses traditional carrierfirewalls. Additionally, the spotlight on Telegram is driving threat actors to seek new ways of communing and driving up security around the platforms in which they congregate.WMC Global’s2025 threat predictionsare detailed below.  

WMC Global's Ben Coon, VP of Threat Intelligence, and Bobby Preston, Threat Analyst and Sr. Business Development Manager, presented at SaintCon this October.

On December 1^st, WMC Global encountered a large-scale email phishing campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365’s voicemail functionality. The email subject, “Voiceᴍᴀɪʟ,” uses several Latin characters in an attempt to bypass email filtering systems. The attack was live until December 4^th.