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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by KnowBe4
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Research Reports
Reports and publications from KnowBe4
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
Q1 2025 Phishing Report
4/28/2025
Could Cyberattacks Turn the Lights Off In Europe?
4/23/2025
Phishing Threat Trend Report
3/20/2025
Recent Statistics & Reports
Of confirmed data breaches examined by Verizon, 1,780 incidents (17%) were attacks against the education system, with 1,537 (14%) confirmed data disclosure.
3/1/2025•
Data breachEducation
According to the Malwarebytes report, 43% of all ransomware in education attacks in 2023 targeted higher education and 36% of attacks targeted K-12.
3/1/2025•
RansomwareEducation
HTML attachments make up 82% of malicious email attachments in the education sector
3/1/2025•
PhishingEducation
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
A hacker breached Mobile Guardian in August 2024 and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 students’ iPads and Chromebooks.
3/1/2025•
Data lossEducation
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
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
For medium sized organisations, the average Phish Prone Percentage PPP after one year of sustained training dropped to 5.2%.
3/1/2025•
PhishingEducationTraining
After one year or more of sustained training, the average Phish Prone Percentage (PPP) for small institutions dropped dramatically to 3.9%.
3/1/2025•
PhishingEducationTraining
In 2023, Trustwave researchers monitored 352 ransomware claims against educational institutions.
3/1/2025•
RansomwareEducation
The median time for users to fall for phishing emails is less than 60 seconds.
3/1/2025•
Phishing
More than 20% of users identified and reported phishing per engagement, including 11% of the users who did click the email.
3/1/2025•
Phishing
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
Check Point Research placed the average number of weekly cyberattacks on educational institutions at 3,574 in 2024, a 75% increase from the previous year.
3/1/2025•
Cyber attackEducation
For large educational institutions with more than 1,000 employees the baseline Phish Prone Percentage (PPP) was 31.7%.
3/1/2025•
PhishingEducation
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