The Cyber Index
Weekly roundup of cybersecurity statistics, threats, and what's shifting in the field.
This week's Cyber Index roundup: 13 reports on rising phishing costs, AI attackers leveling up, insecure AI-generated code, agent-security gaps, and AI governance falling behind.
This week's Cyber Index roundup: 7 reports on AI-compressed exploit speed, automotive vulnerabilities doubling, cloud AI security gaps, Nordic CISO budgets, and multi-turn attacks on frontier models.
This week's Cyber Index roundup: 10 fresh reports covering Verizon's DBIR, the real cost of downtime, patch management benchmarks, AI security, supply chain risk, and mobile app attacks.
This week's Cyber Index roundup: 30+ stats on AI agents accessing data beyond scope, ransomware recovery times, identity breaches, MySQL exposure, and the exception economy.
This week's Cyber Index roundup: 30+ stats on ransomware disclosure rates in Q1 2026, AI ROI gaps, credential resale, identity at machine speed, and SMB fraud losses.
Cyber Index #54 roundup: AI and ML credentials leaked at scale, gen AI initiatives missing KPIs, ransomware up 7% month over month, iOS injection attacks up 1,151%.
Cyber Index #50: AI-generated email attacks grow 5x, 87% of AI coding PRs introduce vulnerabilities, 937 wireless CVEs in 2025, and mid-market confidence paradox.
Cyber Index #49: 86% refuse ransom payments, 90 zero-days exploited in 2025, third-party breaches cascading to 5.28 victims per vendor, deepfake voice calls everywhere.
Cyber Index #48: 27-second eCrime breakout, AI-first firms recover 80 days slower, $150B in cyber VC, 32M phishing emails, insider risk cost hits $19.5M.
Cyber Index #47: 3-hour Akira ransomware, APIs top KEV at 43%, over-privileged AI hits 76% incident rate, 72-minute breach-to-exfil, LATAM attacks doubled.
Cyber Index #46: time to exploit drops from 745 to 44 days, 63% of alerts go unaddressed, 22% meet AI readiness standards, 80% tradecraft shift to stealth.
Cyber Index #45: AI fraud up 1210%, malicious email every 19 seconds, 1 in 5 devs give AI agents unrestricted access, callback phishing up 500%.
Cyber Index #44: UK cyber jobs up 194%, AI code 15-18% more vulnerable, OT protocol attacks up 84%, 76% of security pros emotionally exhausted.
Cyber Index #42: 99% of orgs hit by AI attacks, 70% of CISOs budgeting 10%+ for AI, AI code 1.7x more issues, SMS toll fraud explodes 78%.