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Verizon 2025 DBIR: 10 Takeaways You Should Know Verizon 2025 DBIR (Data Breach Investigations Report) dissects over 22,000 cyber incidents and 12,000 confirmed breaches to reveal the latest breach trends and attacker methodologies. The report highlights shifts in attacker behavior, exploitation techniques, and organizational vulnerabilities. This year’s data reflects a continued rise in ransomware, an…
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Verizon Business’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), released on April 24, 2025, paints a stark picture of the cybersecurity landscape, drawing from an analysis of over 22,000 security incidents, including 12,195 confirmed data breaches. The report identifies credential abuse (22%) and exploitation of vulnerabilities (20%) as the predominant initial attack vectors, with a 34%…
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The latest Verizon DBIR landed this week with a startling statistic about the security posture of VPNs and network edge devices. The post Verizon DBIR Flags Major Patch Delays on VPNs, Edge Appliances appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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COMMENTARY The Verizon “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is a highly credible annual report that provides valuable insights into data breaches and cyber threats, based on analysis of real-world incidents. Professionals in cybersecurity rely on this report to help inform security strategies based on trends in the evolving threat landscape. However, the 2024 DBIR has raised some interesting questions,…
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It’s DBIR season once again, and, as usual, the Verizon team has produced a detailed and comprehensive (and humorous) exemplar of statistical cybersecurity analysis and reporting. Last year, we noted that the data breach landscape was largely static from 2022 to 2023: threat actors were doing what worked and did not seem to find any…
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Get key data points and takeaways from the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
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Breaches resulting from a third party were up 68% last year, primarily due to software vulnerabilities exploited in ransomware and extortion attacks.
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Breaches resulting from a third party were up 68% last year, primarily due to software vulnerabilities exploited in ransomware and extortion attacks.
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Welcome to CISO Corner, Dark Reading’s weekly digest of articles tailored specifically to security operations readers and security leaders. Every week, we’ll offer articles gleaned from across our news operation, The Edge, DR Technology, DR Global, and our Commentary section. We’re committed to bringing you a diverse set of perspectives to support the job of…
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Verizon’s 17th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) for 2024 offers an in-depth look at the latest trends in data breaches and cyber security incidents. Analyzing data from over 30,458 incidents and 10,626 confirmed breaches between November 2022 and October 2023, Verizon DBIR 2024 provides crucial insights into the evolving threat landscape.
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The 2024 edition of the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has finally been released! The team did their usual bang-up job pulling key knowledge threads from the massive volume of data submitted by their ever-increasing number of contributors (of which GreyNoise is one!). Our researchers have pored over this tome to identify critical themes…
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The Verizon DBIR is the most anticipated annual report on data breaches with many incredible insights, and this year is no exception. The most surprising finding is the rapid explosion in vulnerability exploitation, which now constitutes one of the most critical paths to initiating breaches. Balbix is a data contributor to Verizon DBIR, and we…
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Table of Contents As we delve into cybersecurity’s complex and evolving landscape, the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) offers crucial insights into the mechanisms and motives behind the latest wave of cyberattacks. Qualys is once again proud to contribute to the report, helping to dissect these patterns and equip all with the knowledge…
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Thanks to the emergence of significant flaws in widely deployed products such as the MOVEit Transfer, Barracuda ESG, Atlassian Confluence, and others, the past year has seen a nearly 200 percent increase in the usage of vulnerability exploits as the initial access vector for data breaches around the world, according to statistical analysis of more…
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The exploitation of vulnerabilities as an initial access step for a breach increased by a staggering 180% between 2022 and 2023.
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Security bugs are having a cybercrime moment: For 2023, 14% of all data breaches started with the exploitation of a vulnerability, which is up a jaw-dropping 180%, almost triple the exploit rate of the previous year.