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See how users are turning to the AI assistant in Acronis Cyber Platform to get answers and complete tasks using plain-language prompts.

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 September 2026 and reflect threats that Acronis detected, as well as news stories from the industry. This report represents a global outlook and is based on more than one million unique endpoints distributed around the world.

An AI tool that produces only text carries roughly the risk of a badly worded email. A tool that can reach into systems and change things carries the risk of whatever those systems hold. The security question is not how clever the model is. It is which systems and data the model is authorized to access.

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 August 2026 and reflect threats that Acronis detected, as well as news stories from the industry. This report represents a global outlook and is based on more than one million unique endpoints distributed around the world.

Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a multinational campaign in which a Chinese-speaking threat actor, tracked as Red Heron, rapidly weaponized CVE-2026-60004 to compromise internet-facing instances of Gitea, a self-hosted source-code management platform. The activity progressed from source-code theft to persistent access, credential collection, and lateral movement.

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 July 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.

Acronis’ Threat Research Unit (TRU) identified a recent campaign focused on Cambodia. The analyzed archives, discovered while hunting for related activity, use several lure themes, including Cambodian government notices, public health announcements, dental examination records, real estate documents, and promotional offers.