GCC Digital Banking Attack Surface Risks In 2026

**Executive Summary:** The report warns that the GCC's rapid digital banking transformation has expanded attack surfaces, enabling active ransomware groups, data breaches, supply-chain compromises, and AI-enabled cybercrime to target banks, fintechs, telcos, and cloud providers; it highlights fast weaponization of CVEs, growing dark-web exposures, API/open-banking weaknesses, and urges adoption of faster, AI-assisted detection, response, and third-party risk controls.