Hornetsecurity’s Cybersecurity Report 2026 summarizes Microsoft 365-focused threat trends based on analysis of 72+ billion emails, showing malware emails up 131% year over year, scams up 34.7%, and phishing up 21%, with attackers favoring evasion tactics like header forgery, URL obfuscation, and legitimate hosting. It highlights a ransomware resurgence (24% of organizations hit in 2025, 29% increase), shifting toward credential theft and endpoint compromise, while recovery improves via immutable backups (62%) and disaster recovery plans (82%), and ransom payments fall to 13%. The report warns AI will expand the attack surface through uncontrolled adoption and agentic AI, predicts integrity-focused “Ransomware 3.0,” and recommends resilience-first Zero Trust, phishing-resistant MFA, patch p

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