Mandiant-M-Trends-2026.md

# M-Trends 2026 condenses Mandiant/GTIG frontline incident response from 2025: exploits of high-impact zero-days and diversified social engineering (notably voice phishing) drove many intrusions, ransomware operators shifted to denying recovery by targeting backups, identity and virtualization control planes, and sophisticated espionage clusters maintained long-term, low‑noise access—overall forcing defenders to prioritize identity, virtualization hardening, backup resilience, expanded telemetry, and proactive hunting.