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79 Percent of All Ransomware Attacks with the Help of Stolen Identities

State of Ransomware Report: The vendor-independent study among IT and cybersecurity managers in 17 countries investigates the impact of Ransomware on companies and their willingness to counter attacks. This year's report shows that identities are now the dominant initial access vector (IAV): Four out of five ransomware attacks (79%) start with compromised identities identities. The increasing importance of identity-based attacks indicates a fund…
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State of Ransomware Report: The vendor-independent study among IT and cybersecurity managers in 17 countries investigates the impact of Ransomware on companies and their willingness to counter attacks. This year's report shows that identities are now the dominant initial access vector (IAV): Four out of five ransomware attacks (79%) start with compromised identities identities. The increasing importance of identity-based attacks indicates a fund…

90 percent of IT managers see catching-up in identity management as more and more non-human identities access corporate data. Commvault has published the results of the IDC white paper "Resilience Operations: The Discipline that Makes Readiness Provable", which was published in July 2026. The study investigates how the rapid pace of AI introduction affects the identity resilience of companies. 539 IT and resilience decision-makers from North Ame…

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it-daily.net broke the news on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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