Comcast Business 2026 Cybersecurity Threat Report: 79.3 Billion Events Show AI Pressurizing the Threat Landscape
Business Wire•05/10/2026•10:00 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤79.3 billion cybersecurity events detected from March 1, 2025, through February 28, 2026
- ➤25.4 billion phishing events led Comcast Business’s observed attack techniques
- ➤21.9 billion drive-by compromise events ranked second by attack volume
- ➤Comcast blocks an average of 30 million cyber threats daily across 1.2 billion devices
- ➤57,000 DDoS events targeted digital business services with hyper-volumetric traffic
Expert Statements
Noopur Davis, Chief Information Security and Product Privacy Officer, Comcast Corporation
“Attackers have stopped needing to break in. They get in with stolen credentials, then move through the network the way an employee would. The hard part is no longer just keeping them out. It is also seeing them once they are in and preventing their lateral movement.”
Amit Verma, Chief Technology Officer, Comcast Business
“Many cybersecurity programs are designed around organizational boundaries, but cyber risk does not respect those boundaries. Today’s threats often emerge from remote employees’ home offices, supplier networks, other third-party networks, and unmanaged devices. Effective defense requires visibility into network activity across that broader environment, so organizations can identify and respond to risk wherever it originates.”
Comcast Business 2026 Cybersecurity Threat Report: 79.3 Billion Events Show AI Pressurizing the Threat Landscape
Fourth annual report finds attackers operating at machine speed, identity under pressure from AI agents and non-human accounts, and a growing share of attack traffic routed through devices no organization owns
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