AI Deepfakes & Laptop Farms: Inside the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Cloudflare threat intelligence experts Brian Carter and Chris Pacey to break down the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report and what it reveals about today’s cyber threat landscape.

We discuss how threat intelligence helps organizations prioritize risks, how attackers are increasingly leveraging automation and AI tools, and why botnets, supply-chain attacks, and credential-theft campaigns continue to evolve.

The conversation explores how attackers gain initial access, how criminal ecosystems operate across infrastructure providers and services, and how AI is beginning to influence reconnaissance, social engineering, and large-scale campaigns.

We also examine geopolitical dimensions of cyber operations, the growing sophistication of phishing and identity attacks, and the role of threat intelligence in helping defenders anticipate and mitigate attacks before they escalate.

Check the full 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report