Botnet Threats, AI, and Crypto Miners: 2025 Digest by A1 Cybersecurity Center

A1 Cybersecurity Center has revealed the most common digital threats that Belarusian users faced in 2025 and the most effective ways to overcome them.

Bank account fraud was not the main problem that Belarusian businesses faced during cyber attacks in 2025. It was downtime as a result of using encryption programs and leaks of commercial information. Scammers have also been increasingly using AI to create personalized scripts and generate fake voices and videos.

A1 Cybersecurity Center has managed to protect the crucial assets of enterprises under its wing. The Center's specialists have successfully prevented all attempts to interfere with digital services and put business processes on hold.

In 2025, the most effective methods to combat digital threats included convergent solutions and preventive approach that allowed to ward off cyber attacks before they actually took place.

Here are the most common cyber threats that A1 clients had to face in 2025:

• malware;
• phishing;
• malicious websites;
• command-and-control servers that manage malware-infected devices;
• crypto mining programs.

These are the stats provided by Safe Internet – a service created in 2025 to ensure a 360-degree protection from digital threats within A1's mobile and landline Internet networks.

Since its launch in March of 2025, the service has prevented nearly 10 mln threats and counting. Half of all devices connected to the Safe Internet service have, in one degree or another, been affected by malicious actions.

For many Belarusian companies, errors in data processing present a serious vulnerability. To help businesses mitigate these risks and ensure compliance with legislative requirements, A1 has created the Register of Personal Data Processing Processes. It's the first SaaS (Software as a Service) in Belarus that allows to organize and manage all data processing processes, sparing the costs of designing and implementing the necessary infrastructure.

Cooperation between A1 Cybersecurity Center and the Presidential Center for Operations and Analysis yields amazing results, ensuring protection of the national digital ecosystem. The Presidential Centre receives reports on detected threats from the Cybersecurity Center and in its turn, provides information on relevant digital threats at the national level, identified vulnerabilities, and sources of cyber attacks within the A1 network. This joint work allowed for the detection of a massive botnet attack that threatened to affect not only A1 users, but all clients of Belarusian telecom providers.

Combating digital threats in 2026 will require producing fast responses, implementing preventive measures, and approaching cybersecurity as a strategic task of corporate management rather than a routine element of the IT infrastructure.