LONDON, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon Business today released its 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), revealing a dramatic surge in global data breaches, with EMEA ...

Summary: The latest Verizon data breach report shows a sharp rise in zero-day exploits, ransomware, and third-party breaches, painting a grim picture for 2025’s cybersecurity landscape. Human ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon Business today released its 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which reveals a significant increase in cyberattacks. The ...

Data breaches rage on. In the first half of this year, the Identity Theft Resource Center counted 1,732 total data breaches affecting 166 million people, marking a ...

A full 20% of breaches this year stemmed from exploitation of known vulnerabilities, a 34% increase from last year.

Verizon studied 12,195 data breaches out of 22,052 real-world security incidents collected between Nov. 1, 2023 to Oct. 31, 2024, from more than 100 data contributors globally.

In the previous year’s report, the DBIR analysed 30,458 security incidents of which 10,626 were confirmed breaches. For Verizon Business, an incident is a “security event that compromises the ...

According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, during the year ended October 31, 2024, there were 15% more third-party data breaches than the previous year (15%).

An alleged Verizon data breach has seen hackers offering for sale a database of 61 million customer records, which includes personal information useful for both phishing attempts and identity theft.

Verizon just dropped its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, and it’s a doozy. According to the 117-page report, the message is clear: things are getting worse .