This year’s report records a rise in ransomware as well as a jump in social engineering-based breaches
What a year it has been. Nothing delineates things more than reviewing the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which was published earlier this month. To no surprise, phishing increased from 25% of breaches in 2019 to 36% in 2020, aided by the various Covid-themed lures. Also, ransomware loomed large and doubled its frequency from 2019 to 2020 to 10% of the breaches, as you can see in the below chart.
