Cybersecurity Research and Statistics Reports

Attack surface management statistics describe what organizations expose without fully knowing it, and the numbers come in five different units that cannot be added together. Verizon’s 2026 DBIR found third-party

Credential theft statistics measure five different things, and the biggest numbers are not breaches. Verizon’s 2026 DBIR found stolen credentials in 36% of confirmed breaches, yet credential abuse was the

Open ports statistics describe the internet from four different angles, and the numbers do not convert into each other. Shadowserver’s daily scans found about 16.1 million IP addresses with SSH

Web application attack statistics are easy to misread because the biggest numbers count three different things: vulnerabilities found in applications, attack attempts seen at the edge, and confirmed data breaches.

Software supply chain attack statistics are easy to misread because the largest datasets count different things: malicious packages, confirmed attacks, survey incidents, breaches and costs. Sonatype had logged 1,960,846 malicious

Third-party involvement reached 48% of breaches in Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), up from 30% in the previous edition. The change shows how often modern breaches now intersect

Retail data breaches in 2026 are increasingly shaped by software exploitation, third-party exposure, identity compromise and theft of internal business information—not only stolen payment-card data. Verizon’s 2026 retail dataset contains

Financial Data Breaches in 2026 Financial and insurance organizations accounted for 3,809 security incidents and 1,300 confirmed data breaches in the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report. Within the finance-specific

Healthcare data breach statistics are unusually easy to misread. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) operates a public breach portal for incidents

Data breach statistics are easy to misread because the largest datasets do not count the same thing. Verizon analyzes security incidents and confirmed breaches in a contributed global corpus. IBM

Phishing statistics can look contradictory because the largest datasets are not measuring the same thing. APWG counts reported phishing sites and campaigns. Microsoft counts threats detected across email telemetry. The

Cybersecurity statistics can look contradictory because the largest datasets do not measure the same thing, Verizon analyzes incidents and confirmed breaches. IBM studies the financial cost of breaches, The FBI

CMS vulnerability statistics in 2026 show why raw CVE totals are a poor shortcut for judging platform security. WordPress dominates CMS usage, while Joomla, Drupal, Craft CMS and enterprise platforms