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Threat Insights Report September 2025

Securing the Print Estate: A Proactive Lifecycle Approach to Cyber Resilience

Recent Statistics & Reports

Email remained the top vector for delivering malware, accounting for 61% of threats caught by HP Sure Click in Q2 2025. This was a 1 percentage point drop compared to Q1 2025.

In Q2 2025, 13% of malicious emails (phishing, malware, etc.) were not blocked by the email gateway security system. This is 1 percentage point higher than in Q1 2025.

Email Phishing Malware

In Q2 2025, 40% of all detected cyber threats (malware, phishing payloads, etc.) were sent inside archive files (like .zip, .rar, .7z). This share is 2 percentage points higher than in Q1 2025.

Malicious spreadsheets (e.g., XLS, XLSX) totaled 4% of threats in Q2 2025, showing a 2 percentage point drop from Q1 2025.

Malicious spreadsheets

PDF files were responsible for 8% of threats in Q2 2025, a 2 percentage point fall compared to Q1 2025.

Executables and scripts were the second most popular delivery type, making up 35% of threats in Q2 2025, a 1 percentage point growth from Q1 2025.

Executables Scripts

Documents, such as Microsoft Word formats (e.g., DOC, DOCX), accounted for 9% of threats in Q2 2025, growing by 1 percentage point over the previous quarter.

Malicious web browser downloads made up 23% of threats in Q2 2025, with no change compared to Q1 2025.

Malicious web browser downloads

Threats delivered by other vectors, such as removable media, slightly grew by 1 percentage point in Q2 2025 compared to the previous quarter, reaching 16% of threats.

On average, IT and security decision-makers report having approximately 80 printers that are redundant or are in the process of being decommissioned within their organizations.

Hardware Firmware Printers

36% of IT and security decision-makers apply firmware updates promptly during the Ongoing Management stage.

Hardware Firmware Printers

IT teams spend 3.5 hours per printer per month managing hardware and firmware security issues.

Hardware Firmware Printers

More than half (51%) of IT and security decision-makers cannot confirm if a printer has been tampered with in the factory or in transit once it arrives.

Hardware Firmware Printers

Only 32% of IT and security decision-makers can detect security events linked to hardware-level attacks.

Hardware Firmware Printers

86% of IT and security decision-makers say data security is a barrier to printer reuse, resale, or recycling.

Hardware Firmware Printers

1-in-10 (10%) of IT and security decision-makers insist on destroying both the device and its storage drives to ensure data security.

Hardware Firmware Printers

35% of IT and security decision-makers are uncertain whether printers can be fully and safely wiped using current sanitisation solutions.

Hardware Firmware Printers

60% of IT and security decision-makers warn that a lack of collaboration between procurement, IT, and security puts their organization at risk.

Hardware Firmware Printers

1-in-4 (25%) of IT and security decision-makers believe it’s necessary to physically destroy printer storage drives.

Hardware Firmware Printers

54% of IT and security decision-makers fail to request technical documentation to validate security claims.

Hardware Firmware Printers

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