Cyberstats

Security Intelligence

VendorsBitdefender

Bitdefender

Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by Bitdefender

8 categories2 reports

Research Reports

Reports and publications from Bitdefender

2025 Consumer Cybersecurity Survey

Bitdefender 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment Report: Navigating the New Reality

Recent Statistics & Reports

37% of consumers worldwide identified the use of artificial intelligence in sophisticated scams, such as deepfakes, as their top concern in 2025.

AI Scams Deepfakes

Social media is the leading medium for successful scams at 34%, surpassing email (28%), phone calls (25%), text messages (24%), and online ads (21%) in 2025.

Scams Social media Email

14% of consumers reported falling victim to a scam in the past year, with an average loss of $545, resulting in over $534,000 lost among survey participants.

Respondents reported managing an average of five online accounts, with nearly two-thirds holding at least three accounts in 2025.

Online accounts

37% of consumers worldwide still write down passwords, while 32% reuse the same password across multiple accounts in 2025.

Passwords Password reuse

48% of consumers do not use a third-party security solution on their phone, despite 53% conducting sensitive transactions such as bill payments or online shopping in 2025.

Mobile security solutions Sensitive transaction

48% of consumers accept all cookies by default, while only 36% manually manage them and 16% reject all cookies in 2025.

Over half (57.6%) of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities. This represents a 38% increase compared to Bitdefender’s 2023 report on the same question.

63.3% believe their organization experienced an attack involving some element of AI within the past 12 months.

AI Cyber attack

Germany reported the highest difficulty with tool complexity at 41%.

In Singapore, 59% of respondents stated the cybersecurity skills gap within their organization has worsened over the past 12 months.

Skills Talent Staff

One in four (25%) flagged compliance navigation as their biggest challenge with security solutions.

Tools Compliance

28% of respondents cited internal skills shortages as a challenge with current security solutions.

Tools Talent Staff

31% of respondents cited tool complexity as a challenge with current security solutions.

Singapore reported the highest concern with lack of in-house expertise with tools, at 39%.

Talent Staff Skills

50% of professionals in the U.S. and Singapore plan to seek new jobs in the next year.

Staff Talent US

In the U.S., 75% of IT/security professionals highlighted the importance of reducing their cyberattack surface by disabling unnecessary tools or applications.

When asked about the most concerning threats, 51% cited AI-generated threats (e.g., deepfakes, automated malware, malicious code).

AI AI threats Deepfakes

In Germany, 51% of respondents stated the cybersecurity skills gap within their organization has worsened over the past 12 months.

Skills Talent Staff

In the U.S., 73.8% of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities.

Showing first 20 results

Top Categories

7

7

7

6

5

Related Vendors

Nagomi Security