Global Cyber Siege: Ransomware Collapse, Cl0p’s Comeback, and 2025’s Power

In this talk, Steve Thomas breaks down the major shifts in the ransomware landscape from 2023 through 2025, including the dramatic rise and fall of gangs, market consolidation into a handful of dominant players, and the return of high-impact groups like Cl0p. Using data from thousands of real-world ransomware victims and hundreds of monitored threat actor sources, attendees will learn how attacker strategies, industry targeting, and regional focus are changing, and how defenders can use adversary intelligence and smarter third-party risk questions to get ahead of the next wave.

Brief speaker bio:

Steve Thomas is a threat intelligence engineer turned serial entrepreneur with more than 18 years of experience in cybersecurity. He built, bootstrapped, and sold the world’s first threat intelligence startup in 2013 and is a well-published researcher on SQL injection attacks and other security topics.

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