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Fortinet's 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report documents 7,831 confirmed ransomware victims in 2025 — a 389% increase over 2024's approximately 1,600 — alongside the first systematic evidence of AI-enabled cybercrime tooling (WormGPT, FraudGPT, BruteForceAI) being used at scale. Manufacturing, business services, and retail are the hardest-hit sectors. The report reframes the threat environment as fundamentally changed, not merely intensified.