33% of respondents are still not conducting regular security assessments, including penetration testing, for their Large Language Model (LLM) deployments.

20.3% of respondents view AI-powered malware as an extremely significant risk. This concern for AI-powered malware climbs to 25% among senior management, compared to just 15% of middle management.

Overall, 69% of serious findings across all pentest categories are resolved.

Over 83% of consumers have concerns about AI-powered fraud.

62% of fraud victims would still be likely to minimize their banking relationship (e.g., reduce use of a card or reduce accounts) if they became fraud victims.

Among digital payments providers, PayPal is the most trusted, with 54.5% of consumers.

38% of respondents believe human oversight to review or approve AI agent decisions would increase trust.

68% of cybersecurity practitioners expressed concern about long-term genAI threats like adversarial attacks.

Fraud is a particular concern among Americans age 65 and older, with 69.9% extremely or very concerned.

32% of LLM pentest findings are serious

45% of cybersecurity practitioners expressed concern about near-term operational genAI risks such as inaccurate outputs.

76% of security leaders (C-suite and VP level) are more concerned about long-term genAI threats like adversarial attacks.

Nearly 60% of consumers are either “extremely” or “very” concerned about AI-based fraud.

Only 10.1% of consumers feel “extremely prepared” against emerging fraud techniques, such as AI-based attacks.

Nearly 72% of Americans are either “somewhat,” “very,” or “extremely” interested in AI-powered fraud detection tools.

63.3% believe their organization experienced an attack involving some element of AI within the past 12 months.

When asked about the most concerning threats, 51% cited AI-generated threats (e.g., deepfakes, automated malware, malicious code).

81.6% of fraud victims were satisfied with their bank’s response to combat fraud.

51.4% of consumers say they “need to learn more” about AI-powered fraud detection.

36% of security leaders and practitioners admit that generative AI (genAI) is moving faster than their teams can manage.