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Employee susceptibility to phishing dropped to 4.7% and 4.5% respectively in small and medium-sized retail organisations after one year of continuous training.

3/10/2025

Payment card data theft dropped to 25% of all compromised data in 2023.

3/10/2025

North America's retail sector experienced the highest percentage of attacks at 56%.

3/10/2025

Europe's retail sector experienced 11% of attacks.

3/10/2025

The U.S. retail sector accounted for 45% of global ransomware attacks.

3/10/2025

The frequency of cyberattacks in the retail sector rose by 56% in 2023 compared to the previous year.

3/10/2025

Employee susceptibility to phishing dropped to 4.7% and 4.5% respectively in small and medium-sized retail organisations after one year of continuous training.

3/10/2025

38% of retail sector compromises now involve credential theft. This means that in 2023, over a third of all instances where data was compromised in the retail sector were due to stolen credentials.

3/10/2025

The U.S. retail sector accounted for 45% of global ransomware attacks.

3/10/2025

The average cost of a retail data breach in 2024 was an 18% increase from 2023.

3/10/2025

After 90 days of training and simulated phishing tests, the Phish Prone Percentages (PPPs) for the education sector reduced to 19%, 19.4%, and 18% respectively for small, medium, and large organisations.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducationTraining

In 2023, Trustwave researchers monitored 352 ransomware claims against educational institutions.

3/1/2025
RansomwareEducation

For medium sized organisations, the average Phish Prone Percentage PPP after one year of sustained training dropped to 5.2%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducationTraining

The Iranian Mabna Institute conducted intrusions into the computing systems of at least 144 United States universities and 176 universities in 21 other countries in 2023.

3/1/2025
Security incidentEducation

KnowBe4's 2024 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report found that in the education sector specifically, the baseline PPP (Phish Prone Percentage) for small organisations (1-249 employees) was 33.4%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducation

Microsoft Threat Intelligence blocked more than 15,000 quishing (QR Code Phishing) emails per day to the education sector over the past year.

3/1/2025
QuishingEducation

For large educational institutions with more than 1,000 employees the baseline Phish Prone Percentage (PPP) was 31.7%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducation

For education institutions with 250-999 employees, the baseline Phish Prone Perecentage (PPP) was 31.2%.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducation

It takes only another 28 seconds to enter the data after clicking a malicious link.

3/1/2025
PhishingEducationSensitive data

According to the United Kingdom’s Department of Science Innovation and Technology 2024 Cybersecurity Breaches Survey, 43% of higher education institutions in the UK reported experiencing a breach or cyberattack at least once a week.

3/1/2025
Data breachCyber attackEducation

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