Ransomware remains the dominant form of cyberattack and phishing attacks now have more impact, despite more awareness. Meanwhile, cryptojacking isn’t as serious as has been reported.
Those are the key findings in the latest report on cybersecurity breach trends by Verizon Communications. Verizon publishes the report annually, and this year’s report, released Wednesday, is its twelfth and the largest ever.
Ransomware remains the dominant form of cyberattack and phishing attacks now have more impact, despite more awareness. Meanwhile, cryptojacking isn’t as serious as has been reported.
Those are the key findings in the latest report on cybersecurity breach trends by Verizon Communications. Verizon publishes the report annually, and this year’s report, released Wednesday, is its twelfth and the largest ever.
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A record number of organizations (73) contributed to the report, which analyzed 41,686 security incidents and 2,013 confirmed breaches from 86 countries as well as 1.5 billion data points of related information, such as data from malware research firms.
In total, the amount of information Verizon analyzed rose ten-fold since last year, from about 100 gigabytes to a terabyte, Gabriel Bassett, Verizon’s senior information security data scientist and one of the report’s authors, told us.
