Cloud Threats Retrospective 2026: Threat Actor Behavior in the Age of AI

In 2025, cloud threat activity was driven less by novel exploits and more by the relentless weaponization of familiar weaknesses. But familiar does not mean low impact. High-profile events such as Shai-Hulud and React2Shell revealed how systemic weaknesses across shared infrastructure, software dependencies, and trusted integrations can be exploited to create outsized consequences.

At the same time, we began seeing AI reshape the cloud threat landscape, not by introducing entirely new attack methods, but by expanding attack surfaces and accelerating certain adversary workflows. As AI-driven infrastructure and automation is increasing in adoption, security risks are emerging in new contexts and at greater scale.

Join Wiz and cybersecurity thought leader and practitioner, Chris Hughes, on April 28 as they break down the most significant cloud threat trends of 2025, examine the lessons learned from major incidents, and explore how security leaders can adapt their strategies to reduce systemic risk across increasingly complex cloud ecosystems.