Saudi Arabia Q1 Report 2025
Saudi Arabia Q1 Report 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, Saudi Arabia’s cybersecurity landscape underwent a dramatic shift. While accelerating its Vision 2030 digital initiatives, the Kingdom also became a high-priority target for sophisticated ransomware groups, state-backed threat actors, and cybercriminal syndicates operating across the dark web.
Attacks escalated across critical sectors—from government services and healthcare to finance, telecom, and retail—revealing alarming vulnerabilities in cloud systems, remote access infrastructure, and third-party supply chains. Emerging tactics like AI-generated phishing emails, deepfake voice fraud, and zero-day malware variants challenged even the most advanced defenses.
This report uncovers how ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platforms, insider threats, and coordinated geopolitical campaigns reshaped Saudi Arabia’s threat environment—highlighting the real cost of inaction, both economically and reputationally.
It also provides data-driven insights into the threat actors, exploited technologies, and systemic gaps that security teams, regulators, and decision-makers can no longer afford to overlook.
