CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report: Evasive Adversary Wields AI
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As cyber defenses become stronger, adversaries continue to evolve their tactics to succeed. In 2025, the year of the evasive adversary, the threat landscape was defined by attacks that targeted trusted relationships, demonstrated fluency with AI tools, and incorporated tradecraft tailored to exploit security blind spots.
The CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team spends every day immersed in adversary behavior and tradecraft. Each year, they compile their most critical observations and insights into the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report. When the team looked back on 2025, the most prominent trend was subtlety: Adversaries are shifting away from heavily monitored systems to quietly gain access and deftly move across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud environments.
To defend themselves, security leaders need clarity on which adversaries to watch, the details of their behavior, and how to prepare for and respond to an attack. The CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report provides a comprehensive overview of the modern …
The CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team spends every day immersed in adversary behavior and tradecraft. Each year, they compile their most critical observations and insights into the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report. When the team looked back on 2025, the most prominent trend was subtlety: Adversaries are shifting away from heavily monitored systems to quietly gain access and deftly move across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud environments.
To defend themselves, security leaders need clarity on which adversaries to watch, the details of their behavior, and how to prepare for and respond to an attack. The CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report provides a comprehensive overview of the modern …