Attackers persistently adapted their email-based techniques throughout 2022, cycling through new and old tactics in the hopes of evading human and cyber security measures.

The threat intelligence, trends and details presented in the 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report are based on data continuously and automatically captured by the Webroot Platform, which is the proprietary machine learning-based architecture that powers all of our Webroot protection and BrightCloud services.

This report is based off of a survey of 7,000 office workers around the world. It looks at worker’s understanding of phishing and email clicking habits. It also looks at changes in phishing since the COVID-19 pandemic. They reveal real-world concerns from workers around the globe and offer steps to help businesses and individuals resilient against phishing attacks.

It’s clear from these findings that there is still a lot of confusion around artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in terms of these technologies’ in business cybersecurity. In spite of a small amount of regional variance, the overall results of this survey indicated a relatively even amount of skepticism across all geographies, with respect to how much benefit AI/ML brings.

In this report, we’ll dig deeper into the survey results and present our own understanding of these statistics, as well as analysis from Dr. Gonzalez, insights from cybersecurity experts, real-world phishing stories from our customers and partners, and tips on how to stay safe from phishing threats.

Wakefield Research partnered with Webroot to conduct an online quantitative research study among U.S. consumers to:

• Better understand attitudes, perspectives, and behaviors related to cyber hygiene
• Based on this data, create a risk index (“Cyber Hygiene Risk Index”) to assess the risks associated with susceptibility to cybercrime in each state, ranking the states to determine the riskiest and least risky states in the U.S.
• Further analyze respondents’ susceptibility to risk by using a series of custom demographic and psychographic metrics to get a more nuanced understanding of what is behind cyber-hygiene levels

This report offers insight into both Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. It discusses IoT botnets and DDoS, Rising Ransomware, File-less Attacks, and on the security side, it discusses Talent 7 Budget Shortage, Government opinions, Pervasive Threat Intelligence and Market Consolidation.

The 2018 edition of Webroot’s annual Threat Report shares a glimpse into their discoveries and analysis of threat activity throughout 2017, to equip you with the knowledge you need to overcome modern cybercrime.

The Webroot Threat Research Team has analyzed the data from our customer base during the first half of 2018. This mid-year threat report not only shows the stats, but also tells the story behind the headlines. The bottom line from our observations: it has never been more important to implement a robust, effective, multi-layered and continuously evolving security approach to keep valuable data and systems secure.

The 2017 Webroot Threat Report provides a uniquely insightful global view into the analysis and discoveries made by the Webroot® Threat Intelligence Platform to provide insights on key trends and risks as seen by our users over the past year.

The ever-changing cyber threat environment is forcing IT decision-makers (ITDMs) to re- evaluate their security strategies. How well equipped are SMBs to protect their data? How are they adapting their approaches to keep pace with a barrage of new cyber threats? To find out, Webroot commissioned a study of ITDMs in the US, UK, and Australia to evaluate the current security concerns and strategies of SMBs around the world. This report discusses the results of that survey.