2026 H1 APT Report: How APTs Are Weaponizing Trust in the Age of AI

This APT research report (H1 2026) documents state-aligned and criminal threat activity from China-, DPRK-, Russia-, and Iran-aligned actors that increasingly incorporate AI across intrusion stages, weaponize both zero-day and long-known vulnerabilities, abuse trusted cloud and developer infrastructure for C2, and exploit the software supply chain and advertising ecosystems; notable impacts include supply-chain poisoning of widely used packages, multi-hundred-million-dollar cryptocurrency thefts, attacks on internet-exposed operational technology (fuel-tank gauges), and advanced evasion techniques (BYOVD, steganography, blockchain C2).