13 Cybersecurity Stats You Should Know in 2026

This 2026 cyber threat trends briefing outlines an accelerating and interconnected threat landscape: record numbers of data compromises and victim notifications, large-impact supply-chain breaches, widespread abuse of AI by hundreds of threat actors (with phishing and vulnerability exploitation as dominant initial-access methods), a sharp rise in insider incidents, and widespread concern about reduced security staffing—concluding with a recommendation for unified XDR and incident-response automation (Symantec CBX).