European Threat Landscape - CrowdStrike 2025 Intelligence

European threat landscape analysis from CrowdStrike shows the region under sustained pressure from big game hunting ransomware, data extortion, and state-aligned espionage. According to the 2025 European Threat Landscape Report, almost 22 percent of organizations named on ransomware data leak sites are based in Europe, with roughly 2,100 victims recorded since January 2024. Manufacturing, professional services, technology, industrials, and retail sectors top the list of targeted industries, while the U.K., Germany, Italy, France, and Spain account for most victim organizations. Financially motivated eCrime crews continue to weaponize voice phishing, fake CAPTCHA pages, and credential theft, feeding thriving marketplaces that connect initial access brokers, malware authors, and affiliates. Nation-state actors from Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran intensify campaigns against European government, defense, healthcare, and financial entities, blending intelligence collection with destructive and hack-and-leak operations. Russian threat groups tied to the war in Ukraine focus on undermining support for Kyiv, while DPRK operators expand cryptocurrency theft and sanctions-evasion activity across European exchanges and financial institutions. China-nexus adversaries prioritize edge devices and cloud infrastructure to penetrate healthcare and biotech, and Iran-linked crews combine espionage with influence operations disguised as hacktivism. CrowdStrike's telemetry underscores how criminal marketplaces, encrypted messaging platforms, and cloud collaboration tools co-create an ecosystem where access, tooling, and data are continuously recycled among actors.