- 89% of all attacks involved financial or espionage motivations
- Most attacks exploited known vulnerabilities that have never been patched (despite patches being available for months). In fact, the top 10 known vulnerabilities accounted for 85% of successful exploits
- 63% of confirmed data breaches involve using weak, default or stolen passwords
- 30% of phishing messages were opened – up from 23% in last year’s report. Of those, 13% clicked on the deceptive attachment, which caused malware to activate
- Ransomware attacks increased by 16% over 2015 findings.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/05/05/state-of-security-human-error/