August 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: GenAI Data Exposure Emerges as a New Enterprise Risk as Attacks, Phishing, and Ransomware Accelerate

GenAI (generative AI) usage is growing rapidly, with users submitting an average of 106 prompts per month, but high-risk prompts (those that could expose sensitive data) remain a major problem affecting 86% of organizations that regularly use these tools. The healthcare industry faces the highest risk, with 1 in 25 prompts being high-risk, indicating that controlling what data gets fed into AI systems is becoming a significant security challenge for companies.