When you spend your days keeping track of scams, malware and malicious activities, it can seem like they're everywhere. But that also makes it easier to see which scams and hacks are getting popular or spreading fast and wide.
As we close out the year, these are the three trends in scams, hacks and threats that we've seen cross our desks most frequently in 2025. It's not a comprehensive list by any means, just an unofficial summary of the things we've noticed that hackers, scammers and threat actors seem to be up to.
