1-15 May 2026 Cyber Attacks Timeline
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- Last modified: May 21, 2026
Top Motivations - May H1 2026
Top Attack Techniques - May H1 2026
Top Initial Access Techniques - May H1 2026
Top Targeted Sectors - May H1 2026
In the first timeline of May 2026 I collected 82 events, corresponding to an average of 5.47 events per day, an important decrease compared to 108 events of the second timeline of April, where I collected 108 events (7.2 events/day).
Once again, the threat landscape is dominated by cyber crime (70%, slightly up from the previous timeline when it was 67%) and characterized by malware attacks soaring to 50% from 34%.
Cyber espionage operations played an important role even in this timeline, despite slightly down (22% vs 25%). Cyber warfare and hacktivism were both at 3%, showing respectively a decrease from 5% and the same level of the previous timeline.
In terms of attack techniques, the first two techniques confirmed their leadership in the chart, with malware preceding again account takeovers (down to 17% from 20%). Ransomware took the third place with 7%.
And similarly to the previous timeline, in the first half of May, the technique T1190 – exploitation of public-facing applications led the initial access with 28%, slightly up from 25%. T1195.001 – Supply Chain Attacks to software development tools took the second place with 12% ahead of T1566.02 – Spearphishing Links and T1566.01 – Spearphishing Attachments both of them with 7%. And T1566.03 – Spearphishing Services are immediately behind with 6%.
And finally, even in this timeline, targets belonging to J – Information an Communication sector were hit the most with 42% up from 34%, once again a consequence of the growth of supply chain attacks. Even in this fortnight, targets in O – Public Administration were behind with 9%, down from 23%, and K – Finance and Insurance down to 7% from 13%.
Besides these trends, this timeline in particular is rich of interesting events, such as additional mega breaches , so my final suggestion does not change: browse the timeline for the details of all the events collected in this fortnight.
As always bear in mind that the sample refers exclusively to the attacks included in my timelines, available from public sources such as blogs and news sites. Obviously the sample cannot be complete, but only aims to provide an high level overview of the threat landscape.
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