A new exploitation wave targeting BeyondTrust products has emerged following disclosure of CVE‑2026‑1731. Darktrace is observing early malicious activity across customer environments and highlights the importance of proactive defenses.

Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT concern, but a business imperative shaped by AI-driven threats and accelerating risk. In this blog, Amel Edmond, CIO at the advisory, tax, and audit firm Withum, discusses his perspective on why AI is essential to modern cybersecurity and how he is building a security program designed for resilience, visibility, and scale with the help of Darktrace.

Darktrace identified an AI/LLM generated malware sample exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability within its Cloudypots environment. The incident shows how LLM‑assisted development enables low‑skill attackers to rapidly create effective exploitation tools. This analysis outlines the attack chain, AI‑generated payload, and the growing defensive challenges posed by accessible, AI‑enabled cyber threats.

This blog explores a macOS phishing campaign that leverages social engineering, AppleScript loaders, and attempted abuse of the macOS’ TCC feature to gain privileged access. It highlights a broader trend: attackers increasingly exploit user trust rather than system vulnerabilities, using staged payload delivery and persistence techniques to maintain long‑term access.

his blog details how to unpack malware like SnappyBee, a modular backdoor linked to Salt Typhoon, revealing its custom packing, DLL sideloading, dynamic API resolution, and multi‑stage in‑memory decryption. It provides analysts with a step‑by‑step guide to extract hidden payloads and understand advanced evasion techniques by sophisticated malware strains.

This year, organizations have been racing to implement generative and agentic AI tools at a breakneck pace. Darktrace asked over 1,500 security leaders about how they’re navigating these rapid technology shifts – and the challenges and opportunities enterprise AI presents.

Darktrace introduces a new product for securing AI across the enterprise. Darktrace / SECURE AI marks the next chapter in securing organizations from cyber threats and emerging risks. By combining full visibility, intelligent behavioral oversight, and real-time control, Darktrace is enabling enterprises to safely adopt, manage, and build AI within their business.

Darktrace detected a potential ClearFake‑related incident involving signs of EtherHiding activity and interactions with blockchain‑based infrastructure. A single device showed repeated suspicious command‑line behavior, primarily involving Microsoft HTML Application Host. The activity occurred over the course of a day and indicated early‑stage attempts to load malicious content associated with the ClearFake campaign.

Financial institutions are facing a threat landscape shaped by identity-led intrusion, pre-disclosure exploitation, data-first ransomware, and growing cloud and AI governance blind spots. This blog explores the key threats and trends redefining cyber risk across the finance sector and what defenders must adapt to next.

Darktrace identified a DPRK‑linked campaign targeting South Korean users with JSE‑based spear‑phishing lures. The attackers used government‑themed decoy documents to deploy a VS Code tunnel, enabling covert remote access via trusted Microsoft infrastructure. The activity highlights growing abuse of legitimate tools to evade detection and maintain persistent access.

This blog breaks down how attackers rapidly weaponized the React2Shell vulnerability, with a particular focus on cloud‑native financial environments. Drawing on Darktrace’s honeypot research, it explores emerging threat actor tooling, exploitation timelines, and why behavioral‑anomaly‑led security is critical in today’s cloud landscape.

Cloud security has focused heavily on prevention, posture, and configuration. Real attacks don’t happen there. They unfold at runtime, across live workloads and identities, where visibility is limited and evidence disappears fast. This blog covers why runtime is the most critical layer to secure, how attackers exploit dynamic cloud behavior, and why posture-based tools alone.

Darktrace researchers observed threat actors exploiting reports of Venezuelan President Maduro’s arrest to deliver backdoor malware. Attackers often use ongoing world events make their malicious content appear more credible, increasingly the likelihood of a successful attack.

Medusa ransomware increasingly exploits remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools for persistence, lateral movement, and data exfiltration. This blog explores Medusa’s tactics, real-world detections, and how anomaly-based solutions with Autonomous Response can stop attacks.

This influential southern European bank has strengthened its cyber resilience with Darktrace, unifying its risk landscape, reducing manual effort, and empowering teams to proactively prioritize and mitigate exposures with confidence.

AI is accelerating faster than governance can keep up, expanding attack surfaces and creating unseen risks. From data and models to AI agents and integrations, security starts by knowing what to protect. Discover how to identify AI-driven risks, so you can establish governance frameworks and controls that secure innovation without exposing the enterprise to new attack surfaces. 

Each year, Darktrace experts step back from the day-to-day pace of incidents, vulnerabilities, and headlines to reflect on the forces reshaping the threat landscape in order to identify and share the trends we believe will matter most in the year ahead. These are our predictions for 2026

Modern data loss doesn’t always look like a regex match. It can look like everyday communication slightly out of context. Here’s how a domain specific language model paired with behavioral learning protects labeled and unlabeled data without slowing business down.

During a customer trial of Darktrace / EMAIL and Darktrace / IDENTITY, Darktrace detected an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attack that compromised a user’s Office 365 account via a business email compromise (BEC) phishing email. Following the breach, the compromised account was used to launch both internal and external phishing campaigns.

Darktrace observed opportunistic exploitation of the React2Shell vulnerability within minutes of honeypot deployment. Attackers leveraged shell scripts, HTTP beaconing, and cryptomining activity, highlighting rapid adaptation to unpatched flaws.