Hamish Krebs

Heads CyberCX’s global Digital Forensics and Incident Response practice. Author of the foreword to the CyberCX 2026 Threat Report.

Positions captured in the KB

Threat trajectory is worsening structurally, not cyclically. “The threats are bigger and better resourced, and the risks are worse than they have ever been.” [[2026-05-12-cybercx-2026-threat-report]]
AI accelerates the criminal toolkit, not just defenders. “The rise and increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is only going to add more fuel to this fire. This means that ransomware, scams and business email compromise (BEC) are growing in velocity and viciousness.” [[2026-05-12-cybercx-2026-threat-report]]
State actors are increasingly indifferent to detection — invokes nation-state prepositioning intrusions into western critical infrastructure and telecommunications espionage as the upstream context for the operational picture. [[2026-05-12-cybercx-2026-threat-report]]