Welcome to the July 2026 edition of our Monthly Cyber Threats Report.
A consistent theme across this month's articles is the evolution of attacker capability: whether through AI augmentation, autonomous agents or blended physical and cyber tactics, threat actors are finding ways to operate faster, at greater scale and with less human expertise.
In Five Eyes on AIs: the future of cyber threats, Conor analyses the joint advisory issued by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warning that advanced AI is expected to accelerate and amplify existing cyber threats rather than introduce entirely new attack types.
In JADEPUFFER: the emergence of Agentic AI in ransomware operations, Najeeb examines an autonomous AI agent conducting an end-to-end ransomware intrusion.
In Keyboard to crowbar: when cybercriminals use burglars, Jatinder looks at how threat actors are combining social engineering, impersonation and physical access to circumvent technical controls.
In our upcoming cyber threat webinar we will examine evolving cyber threats in 2026, drawing on insights from our cyber incident response engagements and in-house threat intelligence capabilities.