Overview
- Britain's latest government cyber survey reports incidents at 43% of businesses and 28% of charities, a level little changed from last year.
- Phishing leads most cases, with about 85% of affected businesses saying an attack involved fake emails or login pages, and more organizations now reporting only phishing and no other attack type.
- The education annex shows steep increases across the sector, with breaches reported by 73% of secondary schools, 88% of further-education colleges, and 98% of universities, with primary schools also up by several points.
- Small firms rolled back core safeguards, with fewer doing risk assessments, keeping formal security policies, or maintaining cyber-ready continuity plans, and only about 5% say they follow the Cyber Essentials framework.
- Attack patterns shifted as many organizations faced repeated attempts each week, charities saw weekly incidents rise from 18% to 26%, and ransomware fell to about 1% of business reports.