Attackers are sharpening established methods rather than abandoning them, using offensive tooling, infostealers, ransomware affiliates, social engineering, and trusted-platform abuse with greater speed and resilience. Bridewell highlights adversary infrastructure shifts, including malicious hosting patterns, C2 frameworks, and infrastructure rotation that help sustain operations before compromise is visible. Identity-led compromise is described as central to modern attacks, with stolen credentials, session tokens, OAuth abuse, and non-human identities expanding the attack surface. The report also flags ransomware fragmentation, evolving ClickFix/FileFix/ConsentFix-style social engineering, AI-enabled attacker acceleration, edge device exploitation, supply chain compromise, DPRK-linked activity, and convergence between cybercrime and state-aligned operations as 2026 risks.