BeyondTrust: More than 7 in 10 cyber investigations linked to identity or privilege

Identity and privilege have become the dominant drivers of cyber-attacks, according to BeyondTrust’s newly released 2026 Phantom Labs Research Index, which found that 75 percent of more than 400 offensive security investigations conducted over the past year involved identity or privilege-related issues. The report found that attackers are increasingly exploiting trusted relationships between users, applications, machine identities and AI agents rather than relying solely on software vulnerabilit