Acronis Threat Research Unit

Every script you run on a customer endpoint is operational software with administrator privileges. It deserves the same lifecycle discipline you would apply to any other production code — review, attribution, versioning and retirement. Whether a script was written by a senior engineer last Tuesday, cloned from a vendor template or generated by AI, the standards expectation is identical.

Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified an active Lampion malware campaign targeting Portuguese users through phishing emails masquerading as financial and administrative communications.

The Acronis Cyberthreats Update covers current cyberthreat activity and trends, as observed by Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) and Acronis sensors. Figures presented here were gathered in June 2026 and reflect threats that Acronis detected, as well as news stories from the public domain. This report represents a global outlook and is based on more than one million unique endpoints distributed around the world.

Selective session recording is one of the oldest and cheapest controls in privileged-access security, and every regulatory framework that touches remote administration expects it. The control became generally available on the Acronis platform on April 22, 2026. This report measures the two months of adoption that followed, through June 23, 2026.

The single most useful security control inside a cloud-protection platform is also the one that costs nothing to turn on: give each technician the narrowest role that fits the job. Role-based access control is not a user-experience nicety. It is the operational expression of three of the oldest and most universally agreed cybersecurity principles: least privilege, separation of duties and accountability.

Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) has been tracking two concurrent campaigns orchestrated by Mustang Panda targeting Indian government entities, delivering new malware implants and abusing Zoho WorkDrive, a legitimate cloud storage platform commonly used in the Indian government sector.

INC has evolved from an emerging ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation into one of the most active ransomware groups in 2026, claiming more than 800 victims since 2023.

The Acronis Cyberthreats Update covers current cyberthreat activity and trends, as observed by Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) and Acronis sensors. Figures presented here were gathered in May 2026 and reflect threats that Acronis detected, as well as news stories from the public domain.

During disruptions — ransomware, outages or accidental deletions — what matters is whether recoverable points exist, how recent they are, and whether restores can be performed quickly and repeatedly under pressure.

This report examines the disaster recovery (DR) readiness across the Acronis Cyber Platform platform, managing thousands of DR deployments across dozens of data centers worldwide. The analysis focuses on Q1 2026 (January – March) and reveals a clear gap between having DR configured and being truly ready for a disaster.

Most IT teams recognize the value of automation, yet in practice, many remain reactive, spending most of their time on tickets and outages rather than building automation. Organizations that benefit most from automation are not necessarily the ones that write the most scripts, but those that treat it as operational infrastructure and manage it with discipline.

The Acronis Cyberthreats Update covers current cyberthreat activity and trends, as observed by Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) and Acronis sensors. Figures presented here were gathered in April 2026 and reflect threats that Acronis detected, as well as news stories from the public domain. This report represents a global outlook and is based on more than one million unique endpoints distributed around the world.