Fragmentation Defined 2025's Threat Landscape. Here's What It Means for 2026

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Uncertainty has become the operating environment for business. And this year, fragmentation is driving it.

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    <p>The global threat landscape didn't simplify in 2025; it shattered. Geopolitical alliances strained. Criminal enterprises splintered under law enforcement pressure, then regrouped into smaller, faster, and harder-to-track operations. State-sponsored cyber actors shifted from dramatic disruptions to quiet pre-positioning, embedding themselves in networks and waiting. Hacktivist groups and influence networks amplified conflicts, blurring the line between genuine intrusions and perception warfare.</p>
    <p>But here's what makes this moment dangerous: as long-established norms unwind, fragmentation is paradoxically enabling greater interoperability across domains that were once distinct. State objectives, criminal capability, and private-sector technology increasingly reinforce one another. That convergence creates uncertainty, compresses warning time, and expands plausible deniability.</p>
    <p>Today, Recorded Future's Insikt Group releases the <strong><a href="http://recordedfuture.com/research/state-of-security" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">2026 State of Security</a></strong> report, our most comprehensive annual analysis of the forces shaping global security.</p>
    <p>Drawing on proprietary intelligence, network telemetry, and deep geopolitical analysis, this report examines how 2025's fractures are reshaping the threat environment — and what security leaders must prepare for in the year ahead.</p>
    <h2>The End of Stability as a Baseline Assumption</h2>
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        <div><em><strong>Figure 1:</strong></em> <em>2025 redefined international relations (Source: Recorded Future)</em></div>
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