AI-Related Data Breaches Surging
Verizon said AI is helping attackers exploit vulnerabilities and compressing defenders’ response time, with 34% of breaches involving a human element.
- Verizon reported Friday that hackers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to detect software vulnerabilities, shortening the response window for defenders from months to mere hours.
- Exploitation of software vulnerabilities has overtaken credential theft as the leading attack vector, accounting for 31% of all security breaches after nearly 20 years of credential-based dominance.
- Unsanctioned "Shadow AI" usage among employees surged from 15% to 45% in one year, now creating the third most common source of non-malicious data leakage, the report said.
- Supply chain breaches now comprise 48% of all incidents, while only a quarter of disclosed vulnerabilities get fully patched, averaging 43 days to fix half, Verizon found.
- To defend against modern threats, Verizon advises companies to reduce attack surfaces and integrate AI securely; 69% of organizations now refuse ransom payments, the report noted.
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The Billings Gazette
Report: AI-related data breaches surging
WASHINGTON — Hackers are increasingly using AI to detect software vulnerabilities, which has shortened the time that targets have to respond to threats, Verizon said in an annual report tracking data breaches.
Bristol Herald Courier
Corvallis Gazette TimesAI-related data breaches surging
WASHINGTON — Hackers are increasingly using AI to detect software vulnerabilities, which has shortened the time that targets have to respond to threats, Verizon said in an annual report tracking data breaches.
The Cyber Express
cybernoz.comVulnerability Exploitation Tops Cyber Breach Entry Points
Vulnerability exploitation has officially become the leading cause of cybersecurity breaches for the first time in nearly two decades, according to the latest Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) released by Verizon. The findings highlight how artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the threat landscape, enabling attackers to weaponize software flaws faster than security teams can respond. The 19th edition of the DBIR revealed that 31% …
Defenders fall behind, as AI rewrites the rules of a data breach
For almost 20 years, stolen credentials have been the most common route for attackers into organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). But that's no longer the case. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
Verizon publishes its annual Data Breach Investigations Report
Verizon has recently determined that exploiting vulnerabilities surpassed stolen credentials to become the number one data breach entry point in 2025, thanks to the use of AI by threat actors. In the 19th edition of its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, the US operator stated software flaws rather than stolen passwords had become the dominant entry point. In a review of more than 31,000 incidents, Verizon found 31% started with vulnerabi…
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