JULY 2026
One attack logged every ~4 hours across the month. 3 in 4 were driven by profit, not politics.
Financially motivated crime crushed every other driver combined. Espionage was the only other force with real weight on the board.
Nearly 1 in 3 breaches began the same way: attackers simply exploited an application already exposed to the internet.
Four in ten attacks weaponized malicious code. Ransomware and account takeover tied for a distant second.
Information & Communication absorbed 1 in 4 sector-tagged attacks — more than Public Administration and Finance combined.
Attacks spanned six continents — but nearly 1 in 4 flagged incidents traced back to a single nation.
Incident volume was erratic all month — then spiked to 15 attacks in a single day, twice, two weeks apart.