Company: AEMD
Filing Date: 2025-06-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001683168-25-004780
Chunk: 52

Company: AETHLON MEDICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 52
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ers,” threat actors, “hacktivists,” organized criminal
threat actors, personnel (such as through theft or misuse), sophisticated nation states, and nation-state-supported actors. Some actors
now engage and are expected to continue to engage in cyber-attacks, including without limitation nation-state actors for geopolitical
reasons and in conjunction with military conflicts and defense activities. During times of war and other major conflicts, we and the third
parties with whom we work may be vulnerable to a heightened risk of these attacks, including retaliatory cyber-attacks, that could materially
disrupt our systems and operations, supply chain, and ability to produce, sell and distribute our goods and services.

We and the third parties with
whom we work are subject to a variety of evolving threats, including but not limited to social-engineering attacks, including through
deep fakes, which may be increasingly more difficult to identify as fake, and phishing attacks, supply-chain attacks, loss of data or
other information technology assets, adware, software bugs, malicious code, such as viruses and worms, employee theft or misuse, denial-of-service
attacks, such as credential stuffing, and ransomware attacks. We may also be the subject of viruses, malware, including as a result of
advanced persistent threat intrusions, server malfunction, software or hardware failures, loss of data or other computer assets, adware,
attacks enhanced or facilitated by AI, telecommunications failures, earthquakes, fires, floods, or other similar threats.

Ransomware attacks, including
by organized criminal threat actors, nation-states, and nation-state-supported actors, are becoming increasingly prevalent and severe,
and can lead to significant interruptions in our operations, loss of Sensitive Information and income, reputational harm, and diversion
of funds. Extortion payments may alleviate the negative impact of a ransomware attack, but we may be unwilling or unable to make such
payments due to, for example, applicable laws or regulations prohibiting such payments.

Remote work has become more
common and has increased risks to our information technology systems and data, as more of our employees utilize network connections, computers,
and devices outside our premises or network, including working at home, while in transit and in public locations. Additionally, future
or past business transactions, such as acquisitions or integrations, could expose us to additional cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities,
as our systems could be negatively affected by vulnerabilities present in acquired or integrated entities’ systems and technologies.
Furthermore, we may discover security issues that were not found during due diligence