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Recent Statistics & Reports
In 80% of cyber incidents, attackers aimed primarily to steal data.
10/23/2025•
Motivation
There has been a 195% global increase in AI-generated identities used to bypass verification systems.
10/23/2025•
Synthetic identity
Microsoft processes over 100 trillion signals daily and blocks approximately 4.5 million new malware attempts each day.
10/23/2025•
Microsoft
The use of AI-driven forgeries grew by 195% globally in 2025.
10/23/2025
In 2025, Microsoft thwarted $4 billion in fraud attempts and blocked 1.6 million bot-driven or fake account sign-ups every hour.
10/23/2025•
Fraud
Espionage accounts for only 4% of cyberattacks, indicating a shift toward financially motivated cybercrime rather than state-sponsored operations as of October 22, 2025.
10/23/2025•
Motivation
AI-powered phishing campaigns achieve a 54% click-through rate, over four times higher than traditional phishing.
10/23/2025•
AIPhishing
AI-driven phishing is now three times more effective than traditional phishing campaigns.
10/23/2025•
AI-driven attacks
28% of breaches in 2025 were initiated through phishing or social engineering.
10/23/2025•
Phishing
Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for 21% of successful cyber attacks, surpassing ransomware at 16%.
10/23/2025•
Business Email Compromise (BEC)Attach types
Data theft accounted for 37% of cyber-attacks, while 33% had an extortion component and 19% involved ransomware or destructive activity.
10/23/2025•
MotivationOutcomes
Over 40% of ransomware attacks in 2025 had a hybrid component.
10/23/2025•
Cloud
The total cybercrime value in Africa jumped from $192 million to $484 million in the past year.
10/23/2025•
Africa
The number of cybercrime victims in Africa rose from 35,000 to 87,000 in the past year.
10/23/2025•
Africa
52% of all cyberattacks with known motives are driven by extortion and ransomware as of October 22, 2025.
10/23/2025•
Motivation
Phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) can block over 99% of identity-based attacks.
10/23/2025•
MFA
More than 62% of rural hospitals struggle to implement basic email security, multifactor authentication, and network segmentation.
3/5/2025
Just 29% of the surveyed rural hospitals separated basic accounts from more privileged accounts with broader system and data access.
3/5/2025
Most of the approximately 1,000 independent rural hospitals are not part of a larger hospital network or system
3/5/2025
Microsoft estimates that the cost to mitigate basic cyber risks across all approximately 2,100 rural hospitals in the U.S. would be between $70 million and $75 million.
3/5/2025
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