Q2 2026 Threat Report: Same Adversaries, Faster Tooling
The Q2 2026 Quarterly Threat Report from KasadaIQ tracked 27 predictions through the quarter. Nine moved, none were refuted, and the movement clustered exactly where an accelerating market would put it: AI adoption, credential markets and the economics of bot operations. The predictions that advanced describe a market getting cheaper and faster to enter, not one changing its fundamental character.
That is the finding that ties the whole quarter together. AI is changing how adversaries work, not who they are or why they do it. In every section of the report, the same population of adversaries kept doing familiar work with better tooling.
