{"id":23990,"date":"2022-12-19T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T04:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/?p=23990"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:20:47","slug":"cyber-security-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/security-audit\/cyber-security-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"160 Cybersecurity Statistics 2026 [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cybersecurity statistics indicate that there are 2,200 cyber attacks per day, with a cyber attack happening every 39 seconds on average. In the US, a data breach costs an average of $9.44M, and cybercrime is predicted to cost $8 trillion by 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cybersecurity landscape is continuously evolving. And now with COVID-19, remote work, and increasing cyber crimes<\/a> in the picture, maintaining fool-proof security is becoming harder and harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give you a better view of what\u2019s happening with cybersecurity, we curated a list of 160 cybersecurity stats for 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Forecasts for Cybersecurity in 202<\/strong>6<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Did you know a cyberattack happens every 39 seconds? That’s less time than it takes to order takeout. To put this in perspective, cybercrime is estimated to have cost the world USD 9.5 trillion in 2024<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This staggering amount underscores the imminent need for cybersecurity to be treated as a global priority. Moreover, with the explosion of generative AI (besides ChatGPT as well!), the current 2200 daily attacks are expected to not only multiply manifold but become far more individualized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the new technology, ransomware will possibly continue to dominate cybercrime in 2026. In fact, according to Statista, it was the leading motive for more than 72% of cybersecurity incidents in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, even with the widespread impact, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seem to be the new bullseye, as documented by  61%<\/a> of SMBs that were hit in 2023. As such, the expected growth of the global cybersecurity market to $266.2 billion<\/a> by 2027 hardly comes as a surprise.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such, with the alarming 8.9% CAGR of the cybersecurity industry, Gartner predicts that 50%<\/a> of C-suite leaders will have cybersecurity risk-related performance requirements embedded in their contracts by 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the time of writing, 28778<\/a> new vulnerabilities have been discovered in 2023 alone, dwarfing 2022\u2019s total vulnerabilities by nearly 3700+<\/a>. In fact, at the current rate of 14.8%, 2025 will have 33K+ CVEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conversely, recent research by the World Economic Forum reveals a striking lack of confidence among organizations. Only 4% of organizations<\/a> are confident in their assurance of security to \u201cusers of connected devices and related technologies are protected against cyberattacks.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, unfortunately, indicates that most organizations (federal and private) have adopted a reactive rather than proactive approach to cybersecurity, i.e., they place damage control campaigns on a higher priority than preventative vigilance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, Fortra’s reactive stance allowed hackers to exploit a zero-day vulnerability<\/a>, triggering a domino effect that affected over 130 companies. In contrast, Google’s proactive measures successfully defended against a massive DDoS attack, handling over 398 million requests<\/a> per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding to the bad news, IBM\u2019s 2023 report<\/a> indicates the average cost of a corporate data breach in 2023 stood at $4.45 million. However, supply chain attacks can far exceed such a cost, especially in the case of key APIs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The infamous MOVEit Supply Chain Attack<\/a> in June provided ample proof, as it compromised more than 620 organizations, including major companies such as the BBC and British Airways.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the same token, Gartner<\/a> predicts that over the next two years, 45% of global organizations will be impacted in some way by a supply chain attack. The takeaway: your organization is only as strong as its weakest link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bad news doesn\u2019t end there. The same IBM report<\/a> also found that 82% of breaches involved cloud-based data, with ransomware being the primary threat. More frighteningly, even with blockchain safeguards, hackers got away with more than $2 billion in cryptocurrencies in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, that would still just be some nominal pocket change in the burgeoning $8 trillion<\/a> cybercrime economy of 2023. To put this in perspective, the world lost $255,000 every second this year to cyberattacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s take a look at some of the emerging trends in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Popular Cybersecurity Trends in 202<\/strong>6<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the threat landscape evolves with new threat vectors and novel methodologies and techniques, AIML, as well as intricate social engineering tactics, emerged as new favourites in 2023. Let\u2019s take a deeper dive into some of the popular cybersecurity, or rather cybercrime,e trends of 2026:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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