84% of CISOs expressed concern over whether their cyber defenses could withstand an attack from a sophisticated threat actor

Backup verifications and frequencies were included in ransomware playbook for 44% of organizations.

CIOs experienced a 30% decline in their ransomware preparedness rating post-attack.

System intrusion breaches in EMEA surged to 53%, nearly doubling last year’s rate of 27%.

Although EMEA experienced the highest percentage of breaches caused by internal actors, the number of insiders decreased by 41% in 2025.

Within EMEA, 19% of breaches were attributed to unintentional mistakes, and 8% involved misuse.

The FBI received 441 complaints about malware in 2024 (versus 659 in 2023 and 762 in 2022).

Third-party involvement in breaches doubled to 30% in this year's report.

There was a 34% surge globally in vulnerability exploitation as an initial attack vector.

Health records comprise 7.4% of sensitive data going into AI.

In EMEA, nearly a third (29%) of breaches originated from within the organisation.

Small and medium-sized retailers saw significant declines in phishing susceptibility due to training, dropping from 29.3% to 3.7% for small retailers and from 33.3% to 4.2% for medium-sized retailers

Only 15% of organizations deployed their most recent automation in under a month.

53% of organizations plan to adopt AI agents for threat detection.

Only 6% of respondents currently have fully mature automation programmes.

96% of organizations reported at least one security breach in the past year.

38% of Gen Z report changing only a single character or reusing an existing password when prompted to update a credential. This is similar to 31% of Millennials.

75% of respondents reported financial damage due to attacks, which is a significant increase from 60% in 2024.

The number of organizations estimating their financial damage at $200,000 due to attacks or more nearly doubled, from 7% to 13%

Gen Z is the most likely generation to use password management software (46%). This compares to 39% of Millennials and 33% of Gen X.