Verizon 2025 DBIR: 10 Takeaways You Should Know

Verizon's 2025 DBIR, covering ~22,000 incidents and ~12,000 confirmed breaches, highlights a sharp rise in system intrusions driven by vulnerability exploitation and credential abuse (including infostealer malware), continued and expanding ransomware impacts (notably on SMBs and public sector), increasing espionage/APT activity, widespread zero-day and supply-chain exploitation, and evolving social-engineering/MFA-bypass TTPs — prompting urgent prioritization of rapid patching, identity hygiene, segmentation, and proactive threat monitoring.