• Comcast published a 2026 cybersecurity threat report covering 79.3 billion events logged from March 1, 2025, to Feb. 28, 2026.
• Data imply roughly 2,514 events per second, pointing to AI-driven automation compressing the time between vulnerability exposure and attack impact.
• Phishing led observed techniques with 25.4 billion events; drive-by compromise followed with 21.9 billion, highlighting persistent high-volume intrusion paths.
• Identity risk intensified, with stolen credentials, session hijacking, and growth in non-human accounts shifting defenses toward continuous behavioral monitoring.
• Attack surface expanded via unmanaged third-party devices used as residential proxies, weakening perimeter-based controls and complicating attribution and blocking.

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