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Reports and publications from KnowBe4
From Agentic Risk to Human Win: Building a Culture of Security in the Era of Agentic AI
5/20/2026
Phishing Trends Threat Report
4/30/2026
Australia's Cybersecurity Paradox: Strong Defences, Weak Habits
3/10/2026
The State of Human Risk 2025
12/10/2025
KnowBe4 Uncovers Surged Abuse of Legitimate Platforms by Cybercriminals in 2025
10/29/2025
Navigating Cyber Threats Infosecurity Europe 2025 Findings
8/26/2025
Financial Sector Threats Report
8/21/2025
Q2 2025 KnowBe4 Simulated Phishing Roundup Report
7/17/2025
State and Local Cybersecurity: Facing New Burdens Amid Rising Threats
5/27/2025
2025 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking Report
5/13/2025
Recent Statistics & Reports
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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