Those are some of the key takeaways from DBIR, which analyzed 100,000 incidents of which 3,141 were confirmed data breaches.
Verizons 2016 DBIR does not veer much from the findings from the previous year. Accommodation, retail and financial services remain big topics. Point-of-sale breaches were common and Web app breaches took the baton from crimeware.
Verizon combined over 8 million results of sanctioned phishing tests in 2015 from multiple security awareness providers aiming to fix just that. In 2016, 30% of phishing messages were opened by the target across all campaigns and nearly 12% went on to click the malicious attachment or link and thus enabled the attack to succeed.
That indicates a significant rise from last years report in the number of users who opened the email (23% in the 2014 dataset) and a minimal increase in the number who clicked on the attachment (11% in the 2014 dataset).
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