Fortinet-Threat-Predictions-2026.md

Fortinet’s 2026 Cyberthreat Predictions warns that cybercrime will further industrialize—leveraging AI, automation, specialized services, and botnet infrastructure—to accelerate the attack lifecycle from reconnaissance to monetization; defenders must similarly adopt threat-informed, automated, identity-centric, and machine-speed operations to compress detection and containment cycles and improve resilience against scaled ransomware, data extortion, and attacks on critical infrastructure.