Security News > 2022 > May > Verizon 2022 DBIR: External attacks and ransomware reign
There has been an alarming rise in ransomware breaches - a jump greater than the past 5 years combined, Verizon Business has revealed in its 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report.
Verizon has been issuing its yearly DBIR report for the last 15 years, providing the security practitioners and executives around the world a glimpse into the global trends and patterns related to cyber incidents and data breaches.
External actors are 4 times more likely to cause breaches in an organization than internal ones.
"Financial gain" is the number one motive for the overwhelming majority of data breaches, "Espionage" is in the second spot.
82% of analyzed breaches over the past year involved a human element.
As they pointed out, the four key paths to data breaches - including those due to ransomware - are credentials, phishing, vulnerability exploitation, and botnets, and no organization is safe without a plan to handle each of them.
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