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Blue Report 2025

Recent Statistics & Reports

Infostealer malware has tripled in prevalence.

Attacks using valid credentials were successful 98% of the time.

Valid credentials

Maori, a ransomware strain, had a prevention effectiveness rate of 41%.

Ransomware Maori

Logging coverage held steady at 54%.

BlackByte, a ransomware strain, had a prevention effectiveness rate of just 26%.

Ransomware BlackByte

BabLock, another ransomware strain, had a prevention effectiveness rate of 34%.

Ransomware BabLock

Discovery techniques like System Network Configuration Discovery and Process Discovery scored below 12% in prevention effectiveness.

Discovery techniques

Overall prevention effectiveness declined from 69% in 2024 to 62% in 2025.

Only 14% of attacks generated alerts.

Cyber attacks Alerts

Data exfiltration attempts were only stopped 3% of the time in 2025. This is down from 9% in 2024, representing a 3x decrease.

Data exfiltration

In 46% of tested environments, at least one password hash was successfully cracked. This is an increase from 25% in 2024.

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