CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report: Exploitation Window Closes as AI Use Accelerates

CrowdStrike and partners disrupted the Sality P2P botnet on August 31, 2026 via peer-to-peer sinkholing, cutting command channels that had let the 20-year-old malware task 33,000+ infected machines.

XBOW tests your whole external application estate the way an attacker would, with no source code and no credentials, and proves what is exploitable.

CrowdStrike earned the highest Current Offering and Strategy scores in Forrester's Q3 2026 External Threat Intelligence Wave, driven by platform-native intel from proprietary endpoint telemetry.

SafeMind is CrowdStrike's closed-loop system where offensive agent Red Tempest and defensive agent Blue Solano co-evolve, yielding 70% improved accuracy and 6x faster detection creation.

CrowdStrike and Intel introduced a Falcon Data Security capability that classifies sensitive data with language models running on-device on Intel NPUs, avoiding cloud latency and privacy concerns.

CrowdStrike identified a financially motivated threat actor who works as a bug bounty hunter and who developed and distributed the JavaScript-based information stealer PhantomRaven.