Adversaries shifted 80% of their tradecraft toward stealth, evasion, and persistence in 2025.

In 2024, there was a 47% increase in phishing emails evading detection by Microsoft’s native security and secure email gateways.

There has been a 57.9% increase in phishing attacks being sent from compromised accounts getting through traditional detection.

One in five attacks in 2024 displayed some form of evasive technique designed to evade traditional network and endpoint-based security controls