Welcome to SOCRadar's Belgium Threat Landscape Report 2026!

Explore the evolving cyber threats targeting Belgium with SOCRadar’s Belgium Threat Landscape Report 2026. This report highlights how threat actors focus on Belgium’s public administration, information, finance, manufacturing, and professional services sectors through Dark Web data exposure, credential theft, vulnerability exploitation, ransomware activity, and phishing campaigns. With government institutions dominating underground exposure and ransomware operators targeting operationally sensitive industries, Belgium’s threat landscape shows distinct patterns of data theft, extortion, and credential harvesting.

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Key Insights from Belgium’s Cyber Threat Landscape

• Data Theft Dominates Dark Web Activity: Data breach and compromise accounts for 68.68% of Dark Web threat categories, making stolen information the primary underground commodity.
• Public Administration Faces the Highest Exposure: Government organizations account for 53.60% of Dark Web threats, reflecting strong attacker interest in citizen data, institutional records, and government credentials.
• Data and Access Threats Drive Most Activity: Data breach and compromise combined with unauthorized access and credentials accounts for 77.75% of Dark Web threat categories.
• Vulnerability Exploitation Supports Larger Attacks: Exploitation and vulnerabilities accounts for 9.66% of threat types, highlighting its role in unauthorized access and data compromise.
• Manufacturing Faces the Highest Ransomware Pressure: Manufacturing leads ransomware targeting at 24.24%, followed by Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services at 21.21%.
• Ransomware Activity Is Highly Fragmented: LockBit leads at 16.5%, followed by Qilin at 11.5% and Akira at 4.4%, while 67.6% comes from other groups.
• Accounting Services Dominate Phishing Targeting: Accounting Services accounts for 50% of phishing activity, reflecting attacker interest in financial records, tax information, and client credentials.
• DHL Is the Top Phishing Lure: DHL verification pages account for 15.79% of phishing page titles, showing how attackers exploit trusted logistics brands.
• Espionage Adds Strategic Risk: Espionage and state-sponsored activity accounts for 4.40% of Dark Web threat categories, while National Security and International Affairs represents 10% of phishing targeting.
• HTTPS Is No Longer a Reliable Trust Signal: 67.5% of phishing sites use HTTPS, making the browser padlock unreliable as an indicator of legitimacy.

Why This Report Matters

Belgium’s threat landscape shows a clear divide between Dark Web, ransomware, and phishing activity. Dark Web threats concentrate heavily on public administration, where valuable government data and credentials attract attackers. Ransomware shifts toward manufacturing and professional services, where operational downtime creates financial pressure. Phishing campaigns follow another pattern, targeting accounting firms, financial institutions, and trusted logistics platforms.

For government, manufacturing, finance, professional services, and other data-rich organizations, early visibility into leaked databases, exposed credentials, access listings, and ransomware activity is critical. Phishing detection and brand protection are equally important for reducing credential theft, financial fraud, and broader organizational compromise.

Take Action Now

• Dark Web Monitoring: Detect leaked databases, exposed credentials, and unauthorized access listings tied to Belgian organizations.
• Ransomware Intelligence: Track LockBit, Qilin, Akira, and emerging ransomware groups targeting Belgium.
• Phishing Detection & Response: Identify accounting, banking, DHL-themed, and HTTPS-enabled phishing campaigns before credentials are compromised.
• Access Security: Strengthen MFA, monitor privileged accounts, and reduce credential-based attack risks.