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As we enter 2026, security and risk leaders are navigating a landscape that is both increasingly complex and strikingly familiar. At Bitsight, we have spent the last year listening to our customers, synthesizing insights from the field, and preparing for what lies ahead. In a recent webinar with my colleague Vanessa Jankowski, we explored the forces shaping cyber risk in the year to come.

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-40551) has been identified in SolarWinds Web Help Desk, a widely used IT service management platform deployed across enterprise and public sector environments to manage support tickets, assets, and internal workflows. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying host system.

John, a Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) analyst, turns to look at his CISO. He seems a bit rattled. John responds, “Yeah. Huge story.” “Massive. The board is worried and wants to know if this puts us at risk. We’re secure, right?” John hesitates.“Let me get back to you on that.” The CISO walks away. John races to his desk.

When threat actors target your vendors, they’re not just looking to exploit a system for a single attack. They’re looking for every opportunity to scale up their operations. This means seeking ways to push their compromises as far downstream into the supply chain as they can go.

In our previous two posts, The ABC’s of Ishing and From Lure to Breach, we broke down the foundational tactics used by cybercriminals to deceive users and gain unauthorized access. This follow-up report expands on that foundation by exploring three evolving phishing threats that go beyond traditional email lures: clone phishing, deepfake phishing, and Captcha phishing.

Exactly twelve years from now, on January 19, 2038, at 03:14:08 UTC an unpredictable amount of computer systems will think they have been teleported in time more than 100 years, back to December 13, 1901.

As we step into 2026, Bitsight researchers are closely watching key developments across the cyber risk landscape. Their insights reveal a dynamic tension between rising threats and new opportunities to strengthen defenses. Here's what they predict for the year ahead, and what security teams should be prepared to navigate.

Have you ever watched AMC’s The Walking Dead? Before the walkers, before the chaos, there is a quieter moment that often goes unnoticed. The power is out. Roads are empty. Hospitals are running on borrowed time. The world has not fallen apart yet, but it is no longer working. That is what a day without ICS and OT would look like. Industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) are the systems that run the physical world.