ESET Threat Report H1 2026

ESET's H1 2026 threat report summarizes telemetry-driven trends showing attackers adapting established techniques to new platforms and AI capabilities: analysts observed nearly 900,000 AI skills with tens of thousands flagged suspicious or malicious, the first known Android malware using generative AI (PromptSpy), expanding ClickFix social engineering variants, record levels of QR-code phishing (quishing), and persistent ransomware activity leveraging EDR killers.