AI-Driven Cybercrime Surges at Scale, Flashpoint Warns

AI-driven cybercrime moves into operational mainstream

AI, infostealers, vulnerabilities, ransomware, and geopolitical conflict are reshaping organisational risk and compressing the time defenders have to respond, according to Flashpoint’s latest 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition. The threat intelligence organisation tracked more than 22-million illicit discussions involving criminal AI toolkits, 7,4-million infected hosts yielding 1,7-billion stolen credentials, more than 21 6…

AI-driven cybercrime surges at scale, Flashpoint warns

Stolen credentials and AI-generated phishing are accelerating attacks, as Flashpoint tracked 22 million illicit discussions and 7.4 million infected hosts.

Criminals have moved AI out of testing and into daily use, Flashpoint finds

A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage. The 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition covers the first six months of the year. Flashpoint’s analysts worked through 3.9 petabytes of material for it, most of it lifted from […] The post Criminals have moved AI out of testing and into daily use, Flashpoi…