{"id":23088,"date":"2026-09-15T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/any.run\/cybersecurity-blog\/?p=23088"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:33:21","slug":"h1-2026-cyber-risk-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/any.run\/cybersecurity-blog\/h1-2026-cyber-risk-report\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Months on Alert: Get H1 2026 Cyber Risk Report for SOCs and MSSPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ANY.RUN<\/a> has released its H1 Cyber Risk Report, built on unique data from real-world submissions analyzed in the ANY.RUN Interactive Sandbox<\/a> from January to June 2026 by over 700,000 analysts and 16,000 SOC teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report highlights 15 key trends and explains what these changes mean for analysts, SOC teams, MSSPs, and business decision-makers. With supporting data and examples, ANY.RUN discuses prevalent attack paths, their practical impact on threat detection, alert triage, investigation, and incident response, as well as proposes mitigation guidance. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Built on Real-World Threat Investigations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Like all ANY.RUN solutions, the H1 2026 Cyber Risk Report is based on threat activity observed across ANY.RUN\u2019s global user base, including SOC teams, MSSPs<\/a>, enterprise security teams<\/a>, researchers, and analysts investigating real malware and phishing cases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANY.RUN is used by 16K+ organizations and 700K+ security professionals worldwide, including 74% of Fortune 100 companies. Such coverage gives the report visibility into threats submitted across industries, from finance<\/a>, healthcare<\/a>, government<\/a>, IT<\/a>, and manufacturing<\/a> to energy<\/a> and transportation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Shifts Across 6 Months and 15 Trends <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Among the key takeaways for security specialists and executives, ANY.RUN highlights three strategic shifts that stand out across all H1 2026 trends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attackers are abusing trust at scale <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The report shows growth in attacks that rely on hiding malware delivery infrastructures inside trusted channels<\/a>. In many cases, this means that investigation starts too late, as compromise methods like SEO poisoning, malvertising, and codesigning are shared using commonly used, legitimate services like WhatsApp and PDFtools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An excerpt from H1 2026 Cyber Risk report by ANY.RUN<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For instance, attacks using Adobe infrastructure grew by 90.7%<\/strong> from H2 2025 to H1 2026, while RMM-related attacks<\/a> grew by 26.5%<\/strong>, showing how trusted brands and tools are becoming part of the attack path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phishing is becoming harder to validate <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Custom fake CAPTCHAs<\/a> grew by 437%<\/strong> from Q1 to Q2 2026, reflecting a broader shift toward phishing flows that are difficult to reproduce, analyze, and connect due to the expected flow being changed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This includes browser fingerprinting, abusing calendar invites, and device-code phishing. Every method adds more points where visibility can break. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bypassing attacker evasion often takes interactive sandboxing combined with residential proxies to mask the VM\u2019s nature, as simpler detection logic becomes inefficient when standard heuristics get broken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Static detection is losing ground <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Many attacks now rely on runtime behavior, legitimate services, cross-platform payloads, and dynamic infrastructure rather than static indicators alone. For instance, in Dead Drop Resolvers (DDR) threats<\/a>, the final C2 may be absent from the sample, complicating detection using static indicators of compromise. It appears only during execution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For SOC teams, this means hashes, domains, and isolated alerts are no longer enough to understand the full attack chain. It requires shifting from isolated IOCs to the full behavioral chain of C2 resolution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Mitigate with ANY.RUN <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The report\u2019s findings point to the need for SOC teams to detect attacks earlier and see more of the attack chain before damage is done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the 15 trends, attackers repeatedly abuse trusted services, legitimate workflows, browser-based flows, identity mechanisms, and dynamic infrastructure to avoid simple detection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Integrated ANY.RUN solutions deliver measurable value across triage, detection, and response<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ANY.RUN<\/a> helps SOC and MSSP teams close these gaps by combining interactive analysis with fresh, sandbox-validated threat intelligence. With ANY.RUN, security teams can: <\/p>\n\n\n\n