This volume LNCS 14252 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 25th International Conference on Information and Communications Security*, ICICS 2023, held in Tianjin, China, during November 18–20, 2023.*

The 38 full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The conference focuses on: Symmetric-Key Cryptography; Public-Key Cryptography; Applied Cryptography; Authentication and Authorization; Privacy and Anonymity; Security and Privacy of AI; Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies; and System and Network Security.