Reeling in the Year [A 2025 CybelAngel Retrospective]
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Check out some of our favorite new features, events and milestones from the past year, all designed to keep you safer in an increasingly hostile digital landscape.
A slew of new features put more power in your hands
2025 marked significant milestones in product development, focused on delivering greater value, enhanced user experience, and expanded capabilities across our External Threat Intelligence platform.
Our coverage improvements brought substantial gains across multiple modules. The ASM module received major updates, including API integration for seamless toolstack compatibility and the ability to assign individual threat statuses to each asset—enabling faster, more precise inventory management. We strengthened our Threat Intelligence capabilities with two powerful new features: a Claimed Attack List providing real-time feeds of DDoS, defacement, ransomware, and data leak attacks (with special focus on third-party breach detection), and a TI Dashboard visualizing attack trends by sector, country, and threat actor to help anticipate emerging risks.
We also launched a new catalog of professional services, including curated intelligence services with our TI expert pool, monitoring services for specific attacks or events, remediation support, and comprehensive risk assessments to safeguard M&A operations, supply chains, and VIPs.
On the UX front, we delivered highly requested User Management features with an intuitive new interface, redesigned user lists for better clarity, and role-based permission settings, giving teams greater control, improved security, and simplified management.
Our new Alert App provides full visibility into all alerts, enabling earlier threat detection and deeper investigations. Multiple API improvements enhanced interoperability, including access to claimed attacks via API, more precise ADM asset inventory data, and the entire alert stream accessible through API.
Behind the scenes, we focused on productivity and scalability optimizing our processing performance, databases, and analyst workflows to deliver faster, more accurate threat intelligence at scale.
We delivered a compelling External Threat Intelligence Report
In a year marked by escalating ransomware attacks, geopolitical tensions, and AI-driven cyber threats, we embraced this momentum by publishing our comprehensive 2025 External Threat Intelligence Report. This report shares real-time data that highlights the critical balance between reactive risk management and proactive cybersecurity strategies.
Check out CybelAngel’s 2025 report for examples of the unwavering momentum of cyber attacks and how the external attack surface continues to expand at an unprecedented rate.
- 68.38% increase in exposed assets compared to the previous year, with a 51% increase in all alerts sent to our clients in 2024
- 42% rise in reported ransomware attacks, with a staggering 125% increase in active threat groups
- 10% year-over-year growth in exposed databases, primarily due to user negligence and poor cyber hygiene
- Significant growth in cryptocurrency and cybersecurity-related platforms, with Bitcoin channels up by 159.38%, Tor by 81.09%, and Hacking channels by 57.92%
Our data reveals that while the average organization has 4,000 visible digital assets, invisible assets—including cloud applications, Shadow IT, supply chain exposures, and IoT devices—are contributing to an ever-widening external attack surface that demands immediate attention.
Our new CybelAngel careers page went live (and you all loved it!)
We recently launched a brand new clean and updated careers website.
We are thrilled with what this fresh look, simplified navigation, and improved performance will mean for your experience when exploring opportunities and joining the CybelAngel team.
Taking CybelAngel to the world stage
This year, we brought our external threat intelligence expertise to 23 events across 6 countries as we connected with customers, prospects, and industry leaders worldwide. From major industry conferences to regional cybersecurity gatherings, we made our presence felt across DACH, UK, France, North America, EMEA, and the MEA meeting more than 1,500 prospects and customers along the way.
Our flagship appearances included RSA Conference in San Francisco, Black Hat in Las Vegas, GISEC and GITEX in Dubai, Infosec in London, FIC in Lille, Les Assises in Monaco, and it-sa in Nuremberg.
Special recognition goes to our cross-functional event teams, SDRs, Sales, Pre-Sales, RevOps, and CSMs whose collaboration and dedication made every event a success.
From intimate roundtables to major expo halls, we showcased how CybelAngel protects organizations from external threats, one conversation at a time.
Forrester recognized CybelAngel in their Q1 2025 landscape report
Forrester’s 2025 Q1 report explored the External Threat Intelligence Service Provider market, focused on how ETISPs can enable organizations to protect their brand, manage digital risk, and make strategic security decisions.
This report stressed the importance of selecting an ETISP based on use case requirements, deployment flexibility, and market maturity, while highlighting the critical value of proactive threat intelligence. CybelAngel was researched and featured as one of 29 leading providers in this comprehensive market landscape.
Our platform supports both core and extended ETISP use cases, including: Threat actor monitoring, Brand protection, Data leak detection, Vulnerability prioritization, and Incident response support.
Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle features CybelAngel as a sample vendor
Our technology-led approach to digital risk protection earned us recognition in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management 2025. We’re featured as a sample vendor for Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS), highlighting our expertise in discovering and mitigating external threats across the clear, deep, and dark web that impact business operations and reputation.
We’re building the future of CybelAngel, together
This year marked significant milestones in how we attract, develop, and support our team. We launched our new Applicant Tracking System, Teamtailor, to deliver a best-in-class candidate experience, and partnered with Welcome to the Jungle to showcase the talented people behind our technology.
Our commitment to growth extended beyond recruitment. We rolled out dedicated GenAI training programs to expand our technical capabilities, and launched a comprehensive manager development program to support our leaders in their roles. We also began building the foundation for our next-generation career pathways, designed to align with our evolving business needs and anticipate the future of our industry.
People and culture remained at our core. We celebrated together at our Winter Party, where the entire team came together to reflect on our achievements and envision what’s next. Multiple team offsites gave us space to step back, celebrate our wins, and collaboratively plan our next challenges outside the day-to-day office environment.
We’re also proud to have partnered with ImpacTH to better support employees with disabilities, reinforcing our commitment to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
That is it for our 2025 CybelAngel roundup. We want to thank you all for your continued and gracious support this year. We look forward to what 2026 has in store for our team, our customers and our partners.
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