Word on the Street: Media Roundup for Broadcom at RSAC 2025

• Broadcom’s Enterprise Security Group, and its Symantec and Carbon Black brands, had a strong presence at RSAC 2025, with executives sharing insights on major cybersecurity trends and emerging threats.
• Key topics discussed included AI, post-quantum cryptography, ransomware threats, nation-state attacks on mid-sized businesses and the company’s partnership with Google Cloud.
• Several media outlets highlighted Broadcom’s expertise, including discussions on cybersecurity for small businesses, evolving cyberespionage campaigns and advancements in behavioral analytics with AI.
• Broadcom’s Symantec Threat Hunter Team revealed new findings on groups like Billbug, DragonForce and Lotus Panda, detailing their latest attack strategies and targets across multiple industries worldwide.

Broadcom was making some serious (some might say legendary) noise in the media around RSAC 2025.

Executives including Jason Rolleston, general manager of Broadcom’s Enterprise Security Group; Manoj Sharma, global head of strategy; and Eric Chien and Dick O’Brien, key leaders on our Threat Hunter Team, met with major industry press and top business media leading up to the event and at the conference. They shared their thoughts on major cyber security industry trends and new threat intelligence they are seeing and analyzing. 

Key topics included AI, post quantum cryptography, new ransomware threats, nation-state attacks on the mid-market, Broadcom’s partnership with Google Cloud and more. Following are some of the #RSAC2025 stories and notable quotes from Broadcom in the media:

From Jim Carroll at Converge! Network Digest 

RSAC 2025 video interview with Broadcom’s Manoj Sharma on “Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Crypto”

From Jim Carroll at Converge! Network Digest 

RSAC 2025 video interview with Broadcom’s Dick O’Brien on “Advancing Behavioral Analytics with AI”

From Victor Dabrinze at SiliconANGLE

RSAC 2025 video interview with Broadcom’s Jason Rolleston and Google Cloud’s Robert Sadowsk on “Google Cloud and Broadcom alliance shapes the network security roadmap for 2025 and beyond”

From Rom Lemos at Dark Reading

“SMBs typically do not focus on cybersecurity and often they have little idea of their critical role their organization may play in the supply chain, says Eric Chien, a cybersecurity fellow for the Symantec Threat Hunter team at global technology firm Broadcom. While larger companies rightfully worry that attackers are coming after them, the latest data shows that attackers are increasingly targeting smaller firms as well — a message that Chien plans to amplify in a presentation at the RSA Security Conference next week.”

From Rom Lemos at Dark Reading

“The group has targeted the government, manufacturing, telecommunications, and media sectors in several Southeast Asian countries and regions, including the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Vietnam, according to a report released last week by the Symantec threat hunting team at Broadcom, which calls the group Billbug. While the group has expanded its focus beyond government and military organizations to include private industry, they focus almost exclusively in the Southeast Asia region, says Dick O'Brien, principal threat intelligence analyst for the Symantec Threat Hunter Team.”

From Ryan Gallagher at Bloomberg

“Hackers working with DragonForce claimed more than 90 victims last year and targeted companies across various industries, including health care, manufacturing and telecommunications, according to Broadcom’s cybersecurity unit Symantec. The attacks spanned more than a dozen countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, according to cyber experts.”

From Lucian Constantin at CSO

Chinese cyberespionage group Billbug has revamped its attack toolkit with new malware payloads in a wide-reaching campaign targeting multiple organizations in Southeast Asia. “Targets included a government ministry, an air traffic control organization, a telecoms operator, and a construction company,” researchers from Broadcom’s Symantec division wrote in a report on the activity.”

From Sead Fadilpasic at TechRadar Pro

Lotus Panda, a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor, managed to compromise multiple organizations in a number of Southeast-Asian countries, in a campaign that took place between mid-2024 and early 2025. Cybersecurity researchers from the Symantec Threat Hunter Team said the organizations included government agencies, air traffic control organizations, telecom operators, and a construction company in one country, a news agency in another, and an air freight organization in another.

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