Cyber Crime Junkies
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Ransomware Is NOT the Greatest Threat | Here Is What's Coming

December 30, 2025

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: This interview format unpacks cybersecurity predictions and real-world threats through expert testimony and host-led banter, tying futuristic forecasts to current chaos in cybercrime for a gripping dive into digital risks. Technical and prophetic.
  • The Format: This is an interview.
  • The Key Players:
  • Guest: Matthew Rosenquist, legendary CISO and virtual advisor to global enterprises, famed for accurate predictions on AI-cyber intersections, nation-state attacks, and ransomware evolution that boards and insurers heed.
  • Hosts: David Morrow drives energetic, probing chemistry with Rosenquist, bantering over prediction "wins" and escalating threats like a cyber courtroom drama.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 Legendary CISO and virtual CISO advisor to enterprises and SMBs globally; public speaker and predictor of AI/cybersecurity trends.
  • 2 Predicted increase in nation-state investments targeting infrastructure like dams/power grids.
  • 3 Top victim nations: US, Ukraine, Israel, UK, India.
  • 4 Motivations: IP/economic espionage (e.g., China), hard currency/sanctions evasion (North Korea, Russia, Iran), foreign policy/disruption (Russia via misinformation, infrastructure attacks on Ukraine/EU).
  • 5 Ukraine's defensive improvements and preemptive responses noted.
  • 6 AI revolutionizes attacks/defenses in tandem; 2025 as starting gun, accelerating into 2026.
  • 7 Observed shifts: polymorphic ransomware, prompt engineering, breaches across generative/agentic AI.

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