The 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report delivers a sharp wake-up call: Threat actors are now moving 4x faster to exfiltration than in 2025. By striking across three or more surfaces simultaneously, adversaries are intentionally exploiting the blind spots created by an over-reliance on endpoint data. While the endpoint remains a critical first line of defense, the rapid proliferation of cloud services, microservices and remote users has expanded the attack surface beyond what any single
