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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by Barracuda

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Recent Statistics & Reports

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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