{"id":8877,"date":"2025-12-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:55:12","slug":"this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-december-2025-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/2025\/12\/29\/this-month-in-security-with-tony-anscombe-december-2025-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This month in security with Tony Anscombe \u2013 December 2025 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we close out 2025, it&#8217;s time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/our-experts\/tony-anscombe\/\">Tony Anscombe<\/a> to review some of the main cybersecurity stories from both the final month of the year and 2025 as a whole. Among the stories that caught Tony&#8217;s eye are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S.-based organizations paid more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fincen-says-ransomware-gangs-extorted-over-21b-from-2022-to-2024\/\">$2.1 billion in ransom payments to ransomware gangs<\/a> from 2022 to 2024, according to the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). While staggering, this figure is still just the tip of the iceberg.<\/li>\n<li>The Texas Attorney General is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/texas-sues-tv-makers-for-spying-on-users-selling-data-without-consent\/\">suing five major TV manufacturers<\/a>, alleging that they illegally collected their users&#8217; data by secretly capturing what the viewers watch.<\/li>\n<li>Indeed, Tony goes on to take a look back at some of the most notable cyber-incidents for the entire year, highlighting some of the most pernicious tactics and techniques used by threat actors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Be sure to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/videos\/month-security-tony-anscombe-november-2025\/\">November 2025 edition<\/a> of Tony&#8217;s security news roundup for more news and insights<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Connect with us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eset\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESET\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/eset\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eset\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wls-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/en\/videos\/month-security-tony-anscombe-december-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full analysis on WeLiveSecurity \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2025 draws to a close, Tony looks back at the cybersecurity stories that stood out both in December and across the whole of this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9593,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/9593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eset.ee\/et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}