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67.3% of the 832 malicious accounts banned between March 2025 and March 2026 used AI to write malware.

Anthropic6/6/2026
MalwareAI in Cybercrime

495 malicious AI models were identified on Hugging Face.

JFrog5/27/2026
Malicious AI ModelsMalware

56 malicious extensions were identified on OpenVSX.

JFrog5/27/2026
MalwareMalicious Extensions

969 malicious AI agent skills were identified carrying high-impact payloads.

JFrog5/27/2026
AI SecurityAgentic Tools

Credential-stealer infections were dominated by RedLine with 911,968 infections (50.80%), Lumma with 499,784 infections (27.84%), and Vidar with 236,778 infections (13.19%).

Fortinet5/27/2026
MalwareCredential Theft

33% of CIOs identify malware and ransomware as dominant threats.

Logicalis5/27/2026
MalwareRansomware

Over a quarter of CIOs report AI as a significant source of risk, placing it on par with malware, ransomware and phishing.

Logicalis5/27/2026
AI RiskMalware

Threat actors deployed more than 147,000 malicious domains, nearly 58,000 malware files, and actively exploited 549 vulnerabilities in 2025.

2026 In the Wild Threat Report5/27/2026
Malicious DomainsMalware

11.01% of organizations have active malicious packages embedded in production environments.

Orca Security5/27/2026
MalwareMalicious Packages

BRICKSTORM achieved dwell times of nearly 400 days.

Mandiant5/27/2026
BRICKSTORMMalware

Over 11.1 million machines were infected with infostealers in 2025.

Flashpoint5/27/2026
MalwareInfostealers

Malware hidden in public model and code repositories accounts for 35% of AI-related breaches.

HiddenLayer5/27/2026
AI Supply ChainMalware

Nearly half of the active malware families have financial extortion capabilities, including ransomware that can encrypt files on the device.

Zimperium5/27/2026
RansomwareExtortion

Thirty-four active malware families targeted 1,243 financial apps across 90 countries.

Zimperium5/27/2026
Mobile SecurityMalware

TsarBot, CopyBara, and Hook collectively targeted more than 60% of global banking and fintech apps.

Zimperium5/27/2026
MalwareMobile Security

BoaLoader malware is a factor in nearly 20% of incidents observed in the calendar year.

ReliaQuest5/27/2026
MalwareBoaLoader

Across cloud providers, Azure draws 43.5% of observed malware samples, Google Cloud Platform draws 33.2%, and Amazon Web Services draws 23.2%.

Darktrace5/27/2026
Cloud SecurityMalware

41% of internal audit leaders are concerned about the use of AI to insert malicious code.

The Internal Audit Foundation and AuditBoard2/22/2026
MalwareAI Fraud

12% of organizations detected employee exposure to malware via GitHub each month in 2025.

Netskope1/13/2026
MalwareGitHub

In 2025, malicious attachments were present in 18% of phishing attacks.

Barracuda1/13/2026
PhishingMalware