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Cybercrime goes subscription: AI, malware and infrastructure on demand

The Infoblox 2026 Threat Landscape Report finds that cybercrime has become a commercialized ecosystem where criminals can buy or rent nearly every capability needed for sophisticated attacks, including AI, malware, and short-lived infrastructure, enabling low-skilled actors to operate at scale. The report states that cybercrime is becoming more efficient, automated, and harder to stop, driven by economics and fueled in part by frontier AI.

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Cybercrime has become a commercialized ecosystem where criminals can buy or rent nearly every capability needed to launch sophisticated attacks. These services provide anonymity, plausible deniability, and access to short-lived infrastructure that is difficult to detect, attribute, and disrupt, enabling low-skilled actors to operate at scale, according to the Infoblox 2026 Threat Landscape Report. “Cybercrime is becoming more efficient, automated, and harder to stop. Driven by economics and fueled in part by frontier AI, it … More

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