Global Threat Intelligence Report:
2026 Mid Year Edition
Data, insights, and key takeaways on the most impactful threats of 2026—from AI and infostealers to ransomware and vulnerabilities.
Table Of Contents
The Best Data for The Best Intelligence
Following the preceding analysis and assessment of your organization’s threat posture, the subsequent step is to provide your teams with the tools and intelligence required to address identified exposures. From real-time threat intelligence to proactive vulnerability management, discover how Flashpoint empowers organizations to strengthen their defenses and enhance resilience in the face of today’s dynamic threat landscape. Certainly no one can summarize the positive mission impact, risk avoidance, and ROI of Flashpoint than our customers – we are proud to share their conclusions here.
We sought more than just an intelligence provider. We wanted a strategic partner who could acutely understand our security challenges and seamlessly integrate with our team. Flashpoint provided that—and then some.
Director of Security Intelligence
Global Financial Services Company
Flashpoint’s primary source collection (PSC) turns raw adversary activity into mission-ready intelligence. Built on an origination-first methodology, PSC captures data directly from where threats emerge and aligns collection to intelligence requirements—providing the clearest signal and real-time insights sourced from closed communities, encrypted channels, marketplaces, and transient platforms that most teams can’t safely access.
Intelligence Platform
Flashpoint Ignite
Our award winning Flashpoint Ignite platform places the power of our primary source data, AI-powered experiences, and human expertise into the hands of security teams, enabling them to identify and remediate risk and take rapid, decisive action. By combining the skills of our analysts with cutting-edge technology, we offer a comprehensive solution that transcends the limitations of conventional approaches, giving our customers the intelligence they need to reduce risk, optimize operations, and improve resilience.
64B+
Stolen Credentials
38B+
Chat Services Messages
975M+
Illicit Forum Posts
1B+
News Articles
9.3B+
Stolen Credit Cards
1.9B+
Illicit Marketplace Items
2.2B+
Unique Media Files
452K+
Vulnerabilities
7K+
KEV Coverage
Core Packages
Flashpoint Cyber Threat Intelligence
Secure your organization against evolving cyber threats, including cybercrime, emerging malware, ransomware, account takeovers, and vulnerabilities, with Flashpoint Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). Flashpoint combines primary source data collection, AI-native intelligence experiences, and expert human analysis to deliver trusted intelligence that accelerates investigations, improves decision-making, and helps teams stay ahead of evolving threats.
Flashpoint Vulnerability Intelligence
Gain timely awareness of new vulnerabilities with attribution to affected products, versions, packages, and libraries, severity scoring, and exploit intelligence. Flashpoint Vulnerability Intelligence offers the most comprehensive vulnerability database and timely source of intelligence available. It allows organizations to search for and be alerted to the latest vulnerabilities, both in end-user software and third-party libraries and dependencies.
Flashpoint Physical Security Intelligence (Built on Echosec)
Strengthen your situational awareness with Flashpoint Physical Security Intelligence (PSI), which combines geo-enriched data with expert, finished intelligence. In an era of expanding online communication, PSI helps security and intelligence teams cut through the noise with access to a wide range of global open sources, including social media, messaging apps, defense forums, and underground networks. Real-time monitoring and alerts provide ongoing awareness of the people, places, and topics that matter, turning overwhelming volumes of data into actionable intelligence on significant events, geopolitical dynamics, and executive threats.
Flashpoint National Security Intelligence
Today’s digital communication landscape generates an unprecedented amount of open-source intelligence across a myriad of networks, presenting a significant challenge in harvesting pertinent information and disseminating it to the appropriate teams. This process is crucial for expediting and enriching intelligence cycles. Flashpoint National Security Intelligence offers rapid and secure access to essential data, advanced technology, and critical insights, empowering government agencies with the necessary knowledge, oversight, and contextual understanding to effectively propel their missions forward.
Additional Capabilities
Managed Attribution
Flashpoint Managed Attribution connects industry-leading threat intelligence directly to an isolated browser for instant triage and a persistent Managed VM for deep anonymous research. This end-to-end solution empowers analysts to conduct deep investigations without the operational dead-ends and infrastructure overhead of fragmented toolsets.
Fraud Intelligence
Flashpoint Fraud Intelligence helps security and fraud teams detect indicators of fraud across the cybercriminal economy to evaluate exposure, investigate potential risk, and take action before monetary loss and reputational damage occurs. It offers deep insights into how fraudsters operate, revealing stolen credit cards, payment methods, account credentials for sale, and suspicious cryptocurrency transactions. With powerful search and analytics, you have the flexibility to search for fraud indicators with or without bank or customer identifiers, effectively identifying and investigating deceptive activities aimed at your organization.
Brand Intelligence
Flashpoint Brand Intelligence transforms how you protect your brand in the ever-evolving digital landscape. It empowers you to proactively oversee critical assets like domains, logos, social media, and mobile applications. By identifying misuse or impersonation swiftly, it enables effective neutralization of threats, ensuring your brand’s integrity and consumer trust remain intact. Navigate the complex web of digital dangers, from fraudulent domains to social media impersonations and mobile app scams, with confidence and ease.
Flashpoint External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
Flashpoint EASM flags potential exposures days or weeks before they are exploited by attackers by integrating our industry-leading vulnerability data into your attack surface. In an era when AI models accelerate vulnerability discovery at unprecedented scale, Flashpoint EASM replaces manual discovery and stale spreadsheets with an attacker’s-eye view of your perimeter. This allows your team to accurately prioritize risk and start pre-empting threats, significantly reducing your time-to-remediation and overall cyber risk.
Flashpoint Services
Threat Readiness & Response
Our Threat Readiness & Response service equips organizations with comprehensive tools and insights to proactively prepare for, swiftly assess, and effectively counteract ransomware or cyber extortion attacks. By focusing on rapid evaluation and strategic response planning, it ensures minimal impact and swift recovery from cybersecurity threats.
Threat Actor Engagement and Procurement
Flashpoint anonymously and securely engages with threat actors on other organizations’ behalf. This may include coordinating an engagement to identify the possible source of material or data, validate information, purchase or obtain data, and arrange for any communications with malicious actors.
Tailored Reporting
Flashpoint Tailored Reporting Service (TRS) provides a tailored weekly or monthly deliverable that addresses specific intelligence requirements and highlights relevant threats with further assessments—saving analyst time and equipping teams with the resources to stay informed of your organization’s threat landscape.
Extortion Monitoring
Flashpoint’s Extortion Monitoring Service delivers real-time automated alerts of identified leaked assets as a result of an extortion incident, providing teams with the necessary insight into the extent of exposure and damage.
Curated Alerting
Receive timely, relevant alerts based on your intelligence requirements and achieve continual monitoring of illicit communities and social media. Flashpoint analysts provide hand-crafted risk assessments that are unique to your organization. This streamlined approach ensures that you receive actionable and pertinent intelligence, improving the decision-making process and overall operational efficiency.
Request for Information (RFI)
Flashpoint intelligence analysts field questions and conduct specific research inside closed illicit online communities and open sources to provide original, unique analysis.
Proactive Acquisitions
With Proactive Acquisitions, Flashpoint analysts actively monitor your organization’s standing portfolio of digital assets that must remain safe. If compromised, Flashpoint analysts will proactively acquire solicited data on your behalf, ensuring that it doesn’t become a potential vector for serious cyber attacks.
Analyst Support
Force multiply your team (staff augmentation) with onsite or virtual staff providing full-time intelligence analyst support. Allow Flashpoint to produce in-depth intelligence assessments to rapidly identify threats and mitigate your most critical security risks.
