Huntress Tragic Quadrant: Top Cyber Threats Wrecking Businesses

Huntress’s Tragic Quadrant ranks the most common, high-impact cyber tactics observed across its 2026 telemetry and SOC investigations—emphasizing that RMM abuse, mailbox manipulation (BEC), and AiTM account takeovers sit in the highest-risk "OH $#!T" quadrant because they are both widespread and directly enable ransomware, data theft, or account compromise; the report also profiles device code phishing, ClickFix paste attacks, and emerging AI platform abuse and recommends prioritizing defenses and monitoring for those techniques.