2024 Data Breach Investigations Report

Half of the Breaches in EMEA are Internal - Seite 2

Analysis of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue revealed that on average it takes organisations 55 days to remediate 50% of critical vulnerabilities following the availability of patches. Meanwhile, the median time for detecting the mass exploitations of the CISA KEV on the internet is five days.

As a possible relief to some anxieties, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) was less of a culprit vs challenges in large-scale vulnerability management. “While the adoption of artificial intelligence to gain access to valuable corporate assets is a concern on the horizon, a failure to patch basic vulnerabilities has threat actors not needing to rapidly advance their approach and focusing their use of AI on accelerating social engineering,” Chris Novak, Sr. Director of Cybersecurity Consulting, Verizon Business.

Additional key findings:

• About 32% of all breaches involved some type of extortion technique, including ransomware.
• Over the past two years, roughly a quarter (between 24% and 25%) of financially motivated incidents involved pretexting.
• Over the past 10 years, the use of stolen credentials has appeared in almost one-third (31%) of all breaches.
  

View the 2024 Data Breach Investigation Report here.

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