Google-Cybersecurity-Forecast-2026.md

The Google Cloud / Mandiant Cybersecurity Forecast 2026 outlines major threats for the coming year: widespread adversary use of AI (including prompt injection, AI agents, and AI-enabled social engineering), continued growth in ransomware, data-theft extortion and on-chain criminal economies, rising risk to virtualization infrastructure and ICS/OT, and sustained nation-state operations from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea; it emphasizes defense-in-depth, AI governance, evolved IAM for agents, and new investigator skills for blockchain and infrastructure-level threats.