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.
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The Flashpoint Global Threat Intelligence Report: Navigating Speed, Autonomy, and Exploitation
The Flashpoint Global Threat Intelligence Report: 2026 Midyear Edition (January 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026), delivers a timely data-driven assessment of an accelerating hybrid risk environment. Over the first six months of the year, the threat landscape has experienced major shifts, moving from human-led campaigns to AI-led, machine-speed exploitation.
Previous cybercrime tactics of probing organizational perimeters with manual and automated tools are no longer sufficient. Instead, threat actors are capitalizing on the explosive growth of illicit artificial intelligence (AI) toolkits.
Serving as a companion to the Flashpoint 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR), this midyear edition provides a deep analysis across primary threat vectors, helping information technology, fraud, security, and risk teams defend against a new defensive reality: threat actors are moving at the speed of AI.
Flashpoint captured this destructive optimization, uncovering defining data points across the threat landscape:
- Flashpoint tracked over 22M threat actor posts discussing, sharing, or advertising artificial intelligence toolkits for criminal deployment.
- Infostealers compromised more than 7.4M unique hosts globally, extracting over 1.7B credentials and identity data.
- Vulnerability disclosures rose to over 21K in just six months, with 19% of them already possessing public or functional exploit code.
- Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) rose by 45% period-over-period, with the top five RaaS groups accounting for over 44% of all attacks.
Powered by Flashpoint’s best-in-class primary source collection of over 3.9 petabytes of data, the Flashpoint Global Threat Intelligence Report provides readers with a definitive, data-driven advantage to help enterprise defenders identify and remediate potential threats—providing readers with:
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A Clear Understanding of the Convergence Between AI and Cyber Threats
From generating flawless phishing campaigns to automating vulnerability scanning and code obfuscation, discover how adversaries are optimizing for speed and cost-efficiency — utilizing AI as a force multiplier in their various illicit campaigns.
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A Comprehensive Top-Down View of the Evolving Threat Landscape
Gain full visibility of the threat landscape with Flashpoint’s primary-source collections and real-time threat intelligence.
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Strategies for Proactive Defense and Risk Mitigation
Move your organization beyond reactive incident response by leveraging Flashpoint’s comprehensive threat intelligence. Gain the foresight needed to strengthen defenses and optimize your security posture.
1. A Clear Understanding of the Convergence Between AI and Cyber Threats
From generating flawless phishing campaigns to automating vulnerability scanning and code obfuscation, discover how adversaries are optimizing for speed and cost-efficiency — utilizing AI as a force multiplier in their various illicit campaigns.
2. A Comprehensive Top-Down View of the Evolving Threat Landscape
Gain full visibility of the threat landscape with Flashpoint’s primary-source collections and real-time threat intelligence.
3. Strategies for Proactive Defense and Risk Mitigation
Move your organization beyond reactive incident response by leveraging Flashpoint’s comprehensive threat intelligence. Gain the foresight needed to strengthen defenses and optimize your security posture.
