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Digital Threat Intelligence Report

The anatomy of brand attacks in the first half of 2026

Seven shifts in phishing and brand impersonation we tracked in real time this semester, benchmarked against public threat research (APWG, IBM X-Force, Verizon DBIR, CrowdStrike, FBI IC3, and Hornetsecurity) and matched against what actually crossed our own detection and takedown desks.

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14x
Spike in AI-assisted phishing over the holidays
442%
Surge in vishing & voice-clone attacks
48%
Of breaches now involve a third party
29K+
Takedowns for a single protected brand
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The old advice for spotting phishing stopped working. Here's what we're seeing instead.

14x in one month
The month AI-generated phishing stopped being the exception
From under 5% to 56% of phishing emails carrying AI-assistance signals in December 2025, and why “check for typos” is now useless advice.
48% of breaches
Third-party exposure became a boardroom issue
Verizon’s 2026 DBIR finds a third party involved in 48% of confirmed breaches, up 60% year over year.
+1% phishing volume
Attack volume isn't the number to watch anymore
APWG counted 3.76M attacks in 2024 and 3.8M in 2025. A side-by-side comparison of nine metrics shows what’s accelerating instead.
4 operational gaps
Where most brand protection setups quietly fail
Detection without execution, automation that fails on complex hosting, no contractual accountability, and a reactive-only posture, plus what closes each gap.
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Table of contents

Everything the full report covers

Seven sections, from the executive summary and trend deep-dives through to the operational gaps, recommendations, and the takedown casework behind them.

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  • 01 Executive summary & key findings
  • 02 Seven trends defining brand attacks in the first half of 2026
  • 03 Trend deep-dives
  • 04 Market context: where current defenses fall short
  • 05 Recommendations
  • 06 How PhishFort responds to these threats
  • 07 Where the results show up

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