Africa recorded the third highest average number of attacks worldwide, averaging 2,993 weekly attacks, reflecting a-7% decline year over year.

Europe and North America both experienced notable increases in the number of attacks compared to February 2025, with +11% and +9% growth respectively.

1 in every 31 GenAI prompts in February posed a high risk of sensitive data leakage, with 88% of organizations using GenAI tools regularly impacted by this risk

The average enterprise user generated 62 GenAI prompts per month

Organizations used an average of 11 different GenAI tools in February.

49 different ransomware groups publicly impacted organizations worldwide during February

Threat actors exploited third-party software-based entry (44.5%) more frequently than weak credentials—a significant increase from the 2.9% observed in H1 2025.

21% of cybersecurity intrusions investigated involved actors leveraging stolen human and non-human identities for initial access.

7% of cybersecurity intrusions investigated resulted from actors gaining access through improperly configured application and infrastructure assets.

In 35% of cases where data exfiltration occurred, the malicious insider absconded with data through multiple paths such as a combination of email and cloud or USB storage device and cloud.

When malicious insiders used personally controlled cloud services to exfiltrate data, 12% of those malicious insiders used multiple cloud storage services, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Apple iCloud.

95% of organizations rank penetration testing as a top priority.

87% of security leaders trust agentic AI.

93% of security leaders state that comprehensive guardrails and transparent decision-making are critical for safe operation of agentic AI.

48% of senior corporate security leaders estimate at least 25% of their organization's cybersecurity incidents in the past year were enabled by AI.

99% of senior corporate security leaders are confident that strategic use of AI will transform their organization's proactive cybersecurity strategies.

99% of senior corporate security leaders are confident that strategic use of AI will transform their organization's defensive cybersecurity strategies.

Currently, 32% of senior corporate security leaders say real-time fraud detection is largely run with agentic AI; this is expected to rise to 58% in two years.

Currently, 23% of senior corporate security leaders say Identity and Access Management is largely run with agentic AI; this rises to 51% in two years.

20% of organizations have optimized their AI cybersecurity governance frameworks and embedded them into organizational culture.