REDBIKE

2026-05-135 minMandianthigh

Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report highlights a severe divergence in adversary tactics. Cybercriminals are optimizing for speed, with initial access hand-offs collapsing to 22 seconds, and focusing on recovery denial by targeting hypervisors and backup infrastructure. Conversely, espionage groups are prioritizing extreme persistence by exploiting zero-days and deploying in-memory malware on unmonitored edge devices, while voice phishing has emerged as a primary vector for bypassing MFA and compromising SaaS environments.

2026-05-138 minMandiantcritical

In 2025, ransomware operators increasingly relied on vulnerability exploitation for initial access and heavily targeted virtualization infrastructure like ESXi. While overall ransomware profitability appears to be declining, threat actors have adapted by increasing data theft extortion, targeting smaller organizations, and utilizing cross-platform ransomware families like REDBIKE, AGENDA, and INC.