Security News > 2022 > June > Old Hacks Die Hard: Ransomware, Social Engineering Top Verizon DBIR Threats – Again
Ransomware and social engineering continue to dominate challenges facing cybersecurity professionals, according to Verizon's 15th annual Data Breach Investigations Report.
In general, the results of DBIR merely confirm well-established trends, such as the growing threats of ransomware - up 13% this year - and the inescapability of the "Human element", which was tied to 82% of all breaches.
The number of ransomware incidents increased this year by nearly 13%, which the analysts noted is "An increase as large as the last five years combined." Ransomware now plays a role in one out of every four breaches.
Nine years later, the most common vector for ransomware attackers is still desktop sharing software - used in around 40% of attacks.
"Had we known that what was true nine years ago would still be true today," the researchers concluded, "We could have saved some time by just copying and pasting some text."
"The most important research by and for the cybersecurity industry is out, and it feels like the movie Groundhog Day. We are waking up to the same results year after year since the first report in 2008," Gunn wrote.