Third-Party Reports

Driven in part by the leadership shown by telcos in neighbouring Germany, DREI has added Bitdefender's endpoint security software as another layer in its approach to protecting Austrian subscribers against cyber threats.

The folks at Plume have published a second piece of research on residential proxies. This new one shows how they're used as targets for additional malware delivery for infecting already-compromised devices with entirely new malware families while remaining largely hidden.

The threat landscape has shifted to an industrialized cybercrime economy fueled by adversarial frontier AI that can overwhelm even the most skilled defenses. Reacting is no longer enough. (Published June 2026).

The strongest commercial traction among GSMA Open Gateway APIs is in identity and trust APIs such as SIM Swap, Number Verification and KYC Match, according to the GSMA's new report: "GSMA Open Gateway: State of the Market 1H 2026"

The strongest pattern in the first half of 2026 was the way different threats converged around trust. Scams, account takeovers, malicious packages and AI agents all moved closer to the systems, workflows and permissions people already rely on. A hotel scam became convincing because it knew real reservation details. A  WhatsApp account takeover worked by turning the attacker’s browser into an approved linked device. A tech support scam looked more credible because it appeared on familiar infrastructure and used real-looking system errors

SMBs have become one of the largest and most vulnerable segments in today’s digital economy. As their reliance on cloud, mobile, and online tools grows, so does their exposure to cyber threats. Based on a global survey of 700+ SMBs across 7 markets, this report gives telco marketers a clear view of what SMB customers really want, and how to turn cybersecurity into a revenue opportunity.

Bitdefender’s “Global Scam Intelligence Report 2026” surveyed 7,000 people in 7 countries, finding 1 in 7 were scammed in the preceding year (Published June 2026).

In June 2025, Nokia Deepfield’s Craig Labovitz warned that DDoS attackers had weaponized the more than 100 million endpoints in the global residential proxy ecosystem. As he reported at NANOG 97 one year later, the following 12 months bore out that warning.

Plume's investigation into the popular  SuperBox streaming device and its unhealthy ties to malicious activities in the form of residential proxies.

A growing trend towards high-opacity cryptocurrency coins resistant to blockchain tracing tools poses new challenges to law enforcement authorities according to Europol’s “Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2026” (published April 2026).

This Citizen Lab investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. (published April 2026).

The threat of intentional disruption by both logical and physical means is on the rise. There is is a clear and urgent need for joint resilience planning across sectors and supply chains,” according to the European Telecommunications ISAC (published April 2026).

GSMA’s eighth annual Mobile Telecommunications Security Landscape report 2026 (published February 2026). View the Report

AI is anticipated to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in the year ahead, according to 94% of survey respondents according to the World Economic Forum’s 2026 global cybersecurity outlook (published January 2026).

The EY Decoding the Digital Home 2025 study is based on an online survey of 20,500 households in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the U.S.

Attackers increasingly exploit DNS to bypass traditional cybersecurity defenses and deliver malicious content undetected.Over a quarter of newly observed domains were classified as malicious or suspicious, showing how many threats hide in plain sight. Learn more from Infoblox’s 2025 report (published October 2025)

Over half of all smart home vulnerabilities come from streaming devices (26%); Smart TVs (21%) and IP cameras (9%). Learn more from this year’s report by Bitdefender and NETGEAR (published October 2025). View the Report

This year’s Microsoft Digital Defense Report showcases the scale and sophistication of today’s cyber threats, the impact of emerging technologies, and the strategies that can be used to defend against them (published October 2025). View the report

Threats are becoming faster and smarter, with adversaries leveraging AI, proxy abuse, and social engineering to outmaneuver defenses. Learn more from the 2025 Comcast Business Cybersecurity Threat Report (published October 2025). View the report

Nokia’s 2025 threat report shows how stealth intrusions are reaching the telecom core, DDoS floods are hitting multi‑terabit peaks within minutes, and cryptography requirements are accelerating. (Published October 2025). View the Report

This latest edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape analyses 4875 incidents over a period spanning from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 (published October 2025). View the Report

Hiya’s State of the Call report showcases trends and insights about the voice call market and the extent of its vulnerability to fraud. (Published September 2025).View the Report

CISA and partner cybersecurity agency guidance on defending against People’s Republic of China state-sponsored cyber threat actors targeting telecom, government, transportation, lodging, & military infrastructure networks globally (published September 2025). View the Guidance

CTIA’s 5G Security Test Bed’s Assessment of 5G Network Resiliency against False Base Station Attacks (published September 2025). View the report

The GSMA Post Quantum Telco Network Task Force’s new use case: “Quantum-safe Cryptography for 4G and 5G Roaming” (published August 2025). View the Report