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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.

Grandoreiro is a notorious banking trojan that has been operating across Latin America since at least 2016, targeting financial institutions and their customers through phishing campaigns and social engineering techniques. Written in Delphi and Brazilian in origin, it is one of the many of Latin American banking trojans (alongside Guildma, Javali and Melcoz).

Patch prioritization in SMB environments often starts with software vendor severity. Critical patches go first, then high-severity patches, then everything else. Severity answers only one question: How risky is it to leave a vulnerability unresolved? It says nothing about how hard the fix is to deploy, how often it causes issues or how much testing it needs.

Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified an ongoing campaign delivering a previously undocumented custom backdoor against Afghan telecom providers and South Asian critical infrastructure organizations. The backdoor, tracked as PATCHCORD, is a compiled C/C++ implant delivered through sector-specific lures, including fake VPN installers impersonating Afghan Telecom (AFTEL) and telecom management tools.

The business value of better agent health assurance is straightforward. MSPs spend less time on repetitive checks and manual service recovery. Technicians can focus on issues that require judgment instead of routine restarts. Service managers can see which customers or services have repeated problems. Customers receive more stable protection and management coverage.

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.