- Acronis blocked almost 50 million URLs at the endpoint in Q1 2023, a 15% increase over Q4 2022.
- There were 809 publicly mentioned ransomware cases in Q1 2023, with a 62% spike in March over the monthly average of 270 cases.
- In Q1 2023, 30.3% of all received emails were spam and 1.3% contained malware or phishing links.
- Each malware sample lives an average of 2.1 days in the wild before it disappears. 73% of samples were only seen once.
- Public AI models are proving an unwitting accomplice for criminals looking for source code vulnerabilities, creating attacks and developing fraud prevention-thwarting attacks like deep fakes.
- There is a lack of strong security solutions in place that can detect zero-day vulnerability exploitations.
- Organizations often fail to update vulnerable software in a timely manner, long after a fix becomes available.
- Linux servers face inadequate protection against the cybercriminals who are increasingly going after them.
- Not all organizations follow proper data backup protocol, including the 3-2-1 rule.