Healthcare organizations experienced an average of five different types of cyber threats that impacted their organizations in the past year.

71% of Japanese respondents identified phishing as the top threat facing their organization, significantly higher than the global average.

Comcast Business blocked 2M web attack C2 attempts.

Comcast Business blocked 497M phishing-linked C2 attempts.

20% of education institutions reported that they haven’t experienced AI-generated phishing attempts or misinformation campaigns.

90% of faculty are at least “somewhat concerned” about AI-related cybersecurity threats.

Comcast Business detected 44,000 DDoS attacks, which often utilised short bursts and carpet-bombing techniques to overwhelm and test defenses

Comcast Business detected 34.6 billion cybersecurity events over that 12-month period.

Comcast Business blocked 191M proxy-based C2 attempts.

36% of education institutions responded 'Not that I know of' when asked about AI-generated phishing attempts or misinformation campaigns.

Over a six-month period, Comcast Business detected and blocked more than 708 million command and control attempts. These included over 191 million attempts made through proxy-based channels.

Drive-by compromise emerged as a prevalent initial access vector, with nearly 9.8 billion events blocked.

Comcast Business detected 4.7 billion phishing attempts, which specifically targeted human error and poor credential hygiene.

DDoS short bursts used as reconnaissance were also observed: 405 events in less than 5 minutes and 56 events in less than 10 seconds.

Comcast Business blocked 2.5K mobile threat C2 attempts.

2% of education institutions feel “not at all prepared” to handle AI-related cybersecurity threats over the next 1–2 years.

37% of faculty are 'Very concerned' about AI-related cybersecurity threats.

More than a third (37%) of faculty said they were “very concerned” about AI-related cybersecurity threats.

53% of faculty are 'Somewhat concerned' about AI-related cybersecurity threats.

10% of faculty are 'Not concerned' about AI-related cybersecurity threats.