F‑Secure’s December bulletin summarises 2025 trends, highlighting AI use for content generation in phishing, voice cloning, and personalized bait campaigns and noting spikes in shopping and holiday phishing. The report also covers a recent military raid that disrupted a forced‑labour scam centre linked to large‑scale ‘pig‑butchering’ and investment fraud operations and calls for coordinated defenses.

F‑Secure’s December 2025 F‑Alert synthesises a year of evolving cyber threats, with a focus on how AI has become central to large‑scale social‑engineering operations. According to the bulletin, threat actors now routinely use generative models to scale phishing campaigns, craft voice‑cloned calls, and produce tailored lures that increase conversion rates. The report notes seasonal shopping and holiday phishing spikes, where automated systems generate thousands of believable emails and texts that exploit consumer trust. A notable incident detailed in the bulletin describes a military raid that dismantled a forced‑labour scam centre supplying manpower for extensive pig‑butchering and investment fraud schemes, illustrating the industrial scale of modern fraud ecosystems. F‑Secure recommends a combination of consumer education, phishing‑resistant multi‑factor authentication, and tighter collaboration between industry and government to disrupt increasingly automated fraud pipelines. The bulletin urges rapid sharing of indicators, improved platform trust signals, and investment in AI‑driven detection to counter adversaries who leverage the same technologies to lower costs and increase reach.