Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

AI is introducing a new class of threats that don’t look like traditional attacks and can’t be detected with conventional tools. The AI applications that organizations deploy in the cloud interact with large language models (LLMs) through prompts and responses. This prompt layer has emerged as a new attack surface, where risks like prompt injection and sensitive data leakage can go unnoticed.

Last summer we introduced Automated Leads, a transformative approach to threat detection designed to surface the subtle signs of an attack before it turns into a full-blown breach. It’s powered by CrowdStrike Signal (distinct from SGNL) and delivered via the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. Since that launch, the goal has remained the same: to move beyond the limitations of traditional alerting and give analysts a head start on detecting the most sophisticated adversaries.

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies and positioned furthest to the right in Completeness of Vision among all vendors evaluated. We believe this placement validates CrowdStrike as the platform of choice for threat intelligence and reflects our relentless innovation to provide organizations with the technology they need to understand, detect, and defend against modern adversaries.

CrowdStrike is excited to announce Falcon OverWatch for Defender, a new offering that extends our elite managed threat hunting to Microsoft Defender environments. The need for proactive threat hunting is increasingly urgent as adversary operations evolve: 82% of intrusions observed in 2025 were malware-free, the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report revealed, and the fastest eCrime breakout time was a mere 27 seconds. Adversaries using AI increased their attacks 89% year-over-year.

Every year, CrowdStrike Professional Services performs hundreds of Technical Risk Assessments (TRAs) across myriad industries, geographies, and business environments. These deep, hands-on reviews look at how security controls behave in production to evaluate the threats they see and block — and crucially, the threats they miss.

Since October 2025, CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations has observed a shift in intrusion tradecraft: Threat actors are executing high-speed, SaaS-centric attacks that bypass traditional endpoint visibility. CORDIAL SPIDER and SNARKY SPIDER exemplify this evolution as distinct adversaries conducting rapid data theft and extortion campaigns with striking operational similarities.

As organizations scale ChatGPT Enterprise across departments, AI is becoming embedded in everyday business operations. Finance teams are building custom GPTs. Developers are leveraging Codex to act on codebases. Employees are invoking third-party tools within AI conversations to automate workflows. As adoption accelerates, security teams face a fundamental challenge: visibility around agents deployed and running in SaaS environments.

We're proud to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named CrowdStrike a Leader for the fourth consecutive time in the 2026 Radar for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms. This recognition validates our continued investment in combining posture management with real-time detection and response, and reinforces our leadership in stopping cloud attacks.

Many modern cloud security challenges come down to visibility. The complexity of modern environments, the deluge of alerts, and the lack of relevant context make it difficult for security teams to identify and prioritize threats — and easy for adversaries to slip through undetected.

Complexity has become a defining security challenge as organizations expand across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In fact, 52% of surveyed organizations ranked multi/hybrid cloud complexity among their top three infrastructure concerns.1 This complexity creates fragmented visibility across cloud providers, workloads, and Kubernetes environments — gaps that adversaries increasingly exploit to move undetected.