Cyber threat
Cybersecurity statistics about cyber threat
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71% of Japanese respondents identified phishing as the top threat facing their organization, significantly higher than the global average.
Comcast Business blocked 2M web attack C2 attempts.
Comcast Business blocked 497M phishing-linked C2 attempts.
Over a six-month period, Comcast Business detected and blocked more than 708 million command and control attempts. These included over 191 million attempts made through proxy-based channels.
Comcast Business blocked 191M proxy-based C2 attempts.
Comcast Business detected 34.6 billion cybersecurity events over that 12-month period.
Comcast Business detected 44,000 DDoS attacks, which often utilised short bursts and carpet-bombing techniques to overwhelm and test defenses
Quantum computing now ranks among the Top 4 threats that organisations feel least prepared to address.
Comcast Business blocked 1.7M Windows exploit C2 attempts.
Comcast Business blocked 1.1M spam-source C2 attempts.
Comcast Business detected 19.5 billion resource development events, which indicate that attackers are heavily investing in infrastructure.
Comcast Business blocked 13M scanner-to-C2 transitions attempts.
Drive-by compromise emerged as a prevalent initial access vector, with nearly 9.8 billion events blocked.
Comcast Business detected 4.7 billion phishing attempts, which specifically targeted human error and poor credential hygiene.
DDoS short bursts used as reconnaissance were also observed: 405 events in less than 5 minutes and 56 events in less than 10 seconds.
Comcast Business blocked 2.5K mobile threat C2 attempts.
Comcast Business blocked 2M botnet C2 atttempts.
In Q2 2025, 40% of all detected cyber threats (malware, phishing payloads, etc.) were sent inside archive files (like .zip, .rar, .7z). This share is 2 percentage points higher than in Q1 2025.
The total number of threats detected in Red Canary's 2025 Threat Detection Report increased by more than a third compared to 2024's report.
68% of executives across financial and professional services who expect an increase in financial crime risk cite cybersecurity threats and data breaches as the top risk factor.