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

How the timeline for accelerated ransomware handoffs between cybercriminal partners has collapsed to just seconds.

How attackers are abusing AI within compromised environments.

Why modern extortion campaigns have shifted away from simple encryption toward aggressive “Recovery Denial” tactics.

Why multi-year espionage intrusions are forcing organizations to drastically rethink their forensics and telemetry retention strategies.

How threat actors target the virtualization stack to bypass guest-level defenses and embed deep persistence.

The systematic methods attackers use to exploit edge devices and network appliances before patches are even released.

The mechanics of SaaS integration abuse, which adversaries are leveraging for massive data theft and cross-cloud lateral movement.