Ensign
Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2026

✅ Regional Threat Coverage: Key cyber developments across ASEAN, East Asia, and Australia, shaped by distinct geopolitical, economic, and digital pressures. Coverage includes ransomware and sector-specific targeting in Southeast Asia, nation-state activity and industrial espionage in East Asia, and emerging threats to Australia’s critical sectors and supply chains.

✅ Threat Evolution: How ransomware is outpacing conventional defences, hacktivists are sharpening their tradecraft, and cybercrime networks are scaling operations across borders.

✅ Frontier AI: How attackers are weaponising frontier AI models to accelerate reconnaissance, strengthen social engineering, and automate exploitation, and why effective AI governance is now a security imperative.

✅ Looking Ahead: What to expect from the threat environment through 2026 and beyond, including emerging technologies, evolving attack methods, and shifting regulatory requirements.

✅ Operational Recommendations: Practical steps for defenders and decision-makers to strengthen environments, reduce risk, and remain agile amid an evolving threat landscape.