What can a single specialist report tell us about an entire year of financial cyberthreats — and how should that guide our thinking about the year ahead? Kaspersky experts set out to answer that question by assembling a focused account of financial threats observed in 2025 and by offering an outlook for 2026.
What the report covers
The analysis, prepared by Kaspersky experts, characterizes the 2025 financial threat landscape with attention to regional statistics and observable patterns. It concentrates on three primary vectors: phishing, PC malware, and infostealers. The report pairs its retrospective account of 2025 with an explicit outlook for 2026, positioning recent data as a basis for forward-looking assessment.
Focus areas: phishing, PC malware and infostealers
Rather than attempting an encyclopedic catalogue of every strain and campaign, the report singles out phishing, PC malware and infostealers as the principal categories through which financial risk manifested in 2025. Kaspersky's choice to group threats this way signals where its telemetry and analysis found recurring activity and measurable patterns across regions.
Who should take note — and why
Technologists: the report's regional statistics and trend observations provide a data-driven lens for prioritizing detection, monitoring and mitigation efforts.
Policymakers: regionally differentiated figures help shape decisions about resource allocation and cross-border coordination.
End users and organizations: focusing on phishing, PC malware and infostealers directs attention to the user-facing and endpoint risks that the report identifies as central to financial compromise.
Researchers and intelligence analysts: the report frames the landscape in terms that support comparative study and scenario planning for the year ahead.
Outlook for 2026 and why this matters
By pairing a 2025 review with an outlook for 2026, Kaspersky experts offer more than a historical snapshot: they intend the material to inform preparedness. The combination of regional statistics and trend-focused analysis is designed to let readers translate observed patterns into operational and policy choices for the coming year. For anyone charged with protecting financial systems, the practical question posed by the report is straightforward — if these vectors defined 2025, how should defenses be adjusted for 2026?
As organizations and individuals digest Kaspersky's findings, the central risk remains simple and urgent: awareness without action yields little protection. The report lays out where attention was concentrated in 2025; the unanswered question is whether that attention will be converted into stronger, measurable resilience in 2026.
