SonicWall

Ransomware was responsible for 95% of all breaches in the healthcare industry, impacting more than 198 million US patients.

61% of hackers use new exploit code within 48 hours of discovering a vulnerability.

IoT attacks increased 124% year-over-year.

Companies faced an average of 68 days of critical cyber-attacks.

North America saw an 8% rise in ransomware, while Latin America experienced a 259% spike.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for 33% of reported cyber insurance events, up from 9% in 2023.

38% of detected malicious files were HTML-based, while PDFs followed closely at 22%.

SonicWall identified 210,258 never-before-seen malware variants, averaging 637 new threats daily.

Server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks rose by 452%.