Verizon

31% of breaches now start with software vulnerabilities.

48% of all breaches now involve ransomware.

Only 23% of third-party organizations fully remediated missing or improperly secured multifactor authentication (MFA) on their cloud accounts, with 50% of all findings being resolved within a month.

89% of organizations have a specific mobile security budget.

57% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) feel at a disadvantage compared to larger enterprises due to limited resources.

Only 17% of organizations have implemented specific security controls against AI-assisted attacks.

There was a noticeable decrease in the median ransom amount paid.

Manufacturing has experienced a dramatic, nearly sixfold surge in espionage-motivated breaches, jumping to 20% from just 3% last year.

Retail organisations have weathered a 15% increase in cyber incidents since 2024.

67% percent of users are using non-corporate accounts on their corporate devices to access AI services

The median threat actor researched or used AI assistance in 15 different documented techniques, with some Actors leveraging as many as 40 or 50.

40% higher click rates make mobile devices the new favorite target.

Only 26% of critical vulnerabilities were fully remediated by organizations in 2025, a drop from the previous year’s 38%.

The median time for full resolution of critical vulnerabilities went up to 43 days, almost two weeks more than the previous year’s 32 days.

Breaches with third-party involvement have increased by 60%.

Shadow AI is now the third most common non-malicious insider action detected in Verizon's data loss prevention (DLP) dataset in 2025

Human element was present in 62% of breaches

Less than 2.5% of the AI-assisted malware observations involved less- common techniques with one or fewer known malware examples.

69% of ransomware victims didn’t pay.

63% of organizations reported major operational disruptions due to downtime after a breach.

85% of organizations reported an increase in mobile device attacks in 2025.

39% of organizations that ran smishing simulations reported that up to half their employees clicked on a malicious link.

93% of organizations reported that their employees use generative AI tools on mobile devices.

75% of organizations increased their mobile security spending in the past year.

80% of organizations experienced phishing or smishing attempts targeting their staff.

50% of larger enterprises provide comprehensive AI risk training compared to 39% of small and medium-sized businesses.

64% of organizations identified data compromise through generative AI as their top mobile risk.

34% of organizations expressed concern that AI-powered attacks could significantly increase their risk exposure.

63% of organizations that experienced a cyber incident reported significant consequences due to downtime, an increase from 47% in 2024.

Social Engineering was the second-most common incident pattern in the region, with phishing appearing in 19% of breaches in EMEA.

Ransomware attacks rose by 37% since last year.

64% of victim organisations did not pay ransoms this year, compared to 50% two years ago.

In APAC, only 1% of threats are from internal actors, and North America, where internal threats account for just 5% of breaches.

Ransomware is now present in 44% of breaches.

For organisations without the proper IT and cybersecurity maturity, often SMBs, ransomware is present in 88% of breaches

System intrusion breaches in EMEA surged to 53%, nearly doubling last year’s rate of 27%.

Within EMEA, 19% of breaches were attributed to unintentional mistakes, and 8% involved misuse.

Third-party involvement in breaches doubled to 30% in this year's report.

Although EMEA experienced the highest percentage of breaches caused by internal actors, the number of insiders decreased by 41% in 2025.

There was a 34% surge globally in vulnerability exploitation as an initial attack vector.

In EMEA, nearly a third (29%) of breaches originated from within the organisation.