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>> Threat Outlook 2026

What's coming for European critical infrastructure.

Our annual snapshot of the threat groups, tactics, and defensive priorities our research team is watching across European power grids, hospitals, factories, and 5G networks.

>> Annual research preview

A short, plain-English read for security leaders, architects, and programme officers responsible for keeping European critical systems running. Names, TTPs, and indicators inside the PDF — not on this page.

  • Read in 15 minutes.
  • Free. No email gate.
  • Written for European operators — not US-centric threat models.
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Annual outlook · Volume 01

>> The threats targeting European critical infrastructure

Threat Outlook

2026

Research partners

  • Horizon Europe
  • 6G-Path
  • O-CEI

>> Inside the Outlook

What you'll read.

  • Active threat groups

    Ransomware crews and state-aligned operations active against European targets in 2025–2026.

  • TTPs by sector

    Tactics tuned for energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecom environments.

  • OT-specific risks

    Industrial-control-system attack patterns observed in European operators.

  • Supply-chain compromises

    Patterns from recent vendor-update attacks affecting EU operators.

  • Defensive priorities

    Where to focus detection and response budget in the next 12 months.

  • Regulatory context

    How NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act change the threat math for management bodies.

  • Indicators of compromise

    IOCs and detection signatures, curated for European environments.

  • PinakashieldTech's defensive posture

    Detect/Defend/Recover applied per threat category.

>> Who's in the Outlook

Threat groups covered.

  • Group 01
  • Group 02
  • Group 03
  • Group 04
  • Group 05
  • Group 06
  • Group 07
  • Group 08
  • Group 09
  • Group 10

Names, TTPs, and indicators are in the PDF. Download to see the list.

>> Researched and written by

The PinakashieldTech research team.

Co-authored by Peenal Gupta and Dr. Banhirup Sengupta, drawing on the team's work inside Horizon Europe consortia — including 6G-Path on telecom security and O-CEI on critical-entity defence — alongside European hospitals, grid operators, and 5G testbeds.

  • Horizon Europe
  • 6G-Path
  • O-CEI

>> Read it now

Threat Outlook 2026.

Read in 15 minutes. Free, no email gate. PDF for offline reading.

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Pre-launch, the Outlook is a research preview — full 2026 edition releases Q1 2026.