M-Trends 2026 Report: Real-world investigations and actionable defense insights

Drawn from over 500k hours of incident investigations, M-Trends 2026 reveals a landscape of professionalized threat collaboration and zero-day exploits. While adversaries integrate AI to accelerate the attack lifecycle and evade detection, the vast majority of successful intrusions still stem from fundamental human and systemic failures. Move beyond the hype to understand how AI-driven risks evolve while doubling down on the foundational resilience needed to secure your business.

Download the M-Trends 2026 Report to uncover:

  • How the timeline for accelerated ransomware handoffs between cybercriminal partners has collapsed to seconds.
  • How attackers are abusing AI in compromised environments.
  • Why modern extortion campaigns have shifted from simple encryption to aggressive “Recovery Denial” tactics.
  • Why multi-year espionage intrusions are forcing organizations to rethink forensic and telemetry retention strategies.
  • How threat actors target the virtualization stack to bypass guest-level defenses and embed persistence.
  • The systematic methods attackers use to exploit edge devices and network appliances before patches are released.
  • The mechanics of SaaS integration abuse adversaries leverage for data theft and cross-cloud lateral movement.