The Global Spyware Market: Alarming Expansion in 2025 Threat Intelligence Brief — By CyberDudeBivash
Date: September 20, 2025 (IST) Author :CyberDudeBivash Executive summary Despite sanctions, lawsuits, and high-profile exposures, the commercial spyware ecosystem is growing and adapting . New research expands the mapped market to 561 entities across 46 countries (↑ from 435), with 130 new entities added , including 43 created in 2024 . Notably, US-based investors surged from 11 to 31 , and under-the-radar resellers/brokers are increasingly central to sales and obfuscation. Atlantic Council Vendors linked to Predator (Intellexa/Cytrox) show renewed activity across more than a dozen countries , even after sanctions and the UK–France Pall Mall Process . Recorded Future +2 GOV.UK +2 Meanwhile, platform and legal pushback intensify— Apple shipped major anti-spyware hardening in iOS 26 , and Meta won a $167M verdict against NSO—yet governments continue to procure tools (e.g., Paragon’s Graphite for ICE). Net— de...