Quorum Cyber reveals the extensive, but alarming findings of its 2026 Global Cyber Risk Outlook report. AI automation and Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platforms have fundamentally altered the threat landscape, enabling nation-state actors to automate up to 90% of intrusions, and pushing vulnerability disclosures past 35,000 for the first time.
Attackers abandon slow-encryption tactics, as evidenced by ransom demands in financial services exploding by 179%. Organisations face a stark reality: detection windows are shrinking, barriers to hacker entry are collapsing, and even modestly skilled criminals now wield capabilities once reserved for elite operators.
