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41% of organizations cited brand and reputational damage as the most common consequence of an email security breach.
11/1/2025•
Email
50% of organizations detected an email security breach within one hour.
11/1/2025•
Email
36% of organizations lost sensitive data due to an email security breach.
11/1/2025•
Email
25% of organizations lost customers due to an email security breach.
11/1/2025•
Email
38% of organizations reported operational impact, including downtime and business disruption, as a consequence of an email security breach.
11/1/2025•
Email
27% of organizations lost new business as a result of an email security breach.
11/1/2025•
Email
47% of organizations identified advanced evasion techniques as the main obstacle to rapid incident response.
11/1/2025•
Email
71% of organizations that experienced an email security breach were also hit with ransomware during the year.
11/1/2025•
Email
Bitcoin sextortion scams account for 12% of malicious PDF attachments.
4/28/2025•
ScamSextortionPDF
24% of email messages overall are now malicious or unwanted spam.
4/28/2025•
EmailSpam
83% of malicious Microsoft documents contain QR codes designed to take users to phishing websites.
4/28/2025•
EmailMicrosoftQR
As many as 20% of organizations experienced at least one attempted or successful account takeover (ATO) incident per month.
4/28/2025•
ATOEmail
47% of email domains do not have Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) configured to protect against unauthorized use, including spoofing and impersonation attacks.
4/28/2025•
EmailDMARC
23% of HTML email attachments are malicious, making them the most weaponized text file type detected. More than three-quarters of the malicious files detected overall were HTML files.
4/28/2025•
EmailHTML
68% of malicious PDF attachments contain QR codes designed to take users to phishing websites.
4/28/2025•
EmailPDFQR
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