Google Cloud Security Threat Horizons Report #12 Is Out!
Google, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our next Threat Horizons Report
My favorite quotes from the report follow below:
'Google Cloud's latest research highlights that common hygiene gaps like credential issues and misconfigurations are persistently exploited by threat actors to gain entry into cloud environments. During the first half of 2025, weak or absent credentials were the predominant threat, accounting for 47.1% of incidents. Misconfigurations (29.4%) and API/UI compromises (11.8%) followed as the next most frequently observed initial access vectors.'
'Notably, compared to H2 2024, we observed a 4.9% decrease in misconfiguration-based access and a 5.3% decrease in API/UI compromises (i.e., when an unauthorized entity gains access to, or manipulates a system or data through an application's user-facing screen or its programmatic connections)....