ESET Threat Report H1 2026: AI Boosts Cyber Attackers’ Efficiency Globally Quishing Emerges as the No. 2 Email Threat in India
ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report, which summarizes threat landscape trends seen in ESET telemetry, as well as insights from ESET threat detection and research experts, from December 2025 through May 2026. The first half of 2026 shows how attackers continue to improve the efficiency and scalability of their operations. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a growing role in this development. ESET analyzed nearly 900,000 AI skills and small functional components used by AI agents and identified tens of thousands of suspicious and thousands of outright malicious instances. AI is also beginning to appear within malware itself: ESET researchers have identified PromptSpy, the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow.
India Snapshot: Key findings from ESET’s H1 2026 telemetry
● Quishing on the rise: QRCode/Phishing trojan was India’s second most-detected email threat in H1 2026, accounting for roughly 7.4% of all malicious...
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