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Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report analyzes over 500,000 hours of frontline incident investigations in 2025, revealing major shifts in adversary tactics and cyber threat trends.
•Global median dwell time rose to 14 days (from 11), with cyber espionage and North Korean IT worker incidents averaging 122 days
•Exploits remained the top initial infection vector (32%) for the sixth consecutive year, while voice phishing surged to 11%, becoming the second most common
•The hand-off window between initial access brokers and ransomware operators collapsed from over 8 hours in 2022 to just 22 seconds in 2025
•Ransomware groups now actively target backup infrastructure, identity services, and hypervisor layers to deny recovery, not just encrypt data
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Espionage groups exploit edge devices lacking EDR telemetry, with mean time to exploit at -7 days, meaning exploitation occurs before patches are released
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