- The Norton generation threat report reveals worrying trends in cybersecurity
- Scams and data violations are increasing
- More than one million records violated only in the first quarter of 2025
The last Norton Genza report has revealed its findings on the first quarter of 2025, and although a decrease in the total number of blocked attacks could point to a reduction in the activity of threats, the finest details reveal some more related to tendencies.
He found that data theft threats have seen a great increase, with an 186% increase in violated records, and emails of raped users only increased 102%. This translates into more than 1.19 million records of ‘high gravity’ or ‘critical gravity’ affected, including text passwords without format.
This, of course, represents a great danger of threat actors, who could use these passwords to directly access user accounts. We recommend regularly verifying non -compliance websites such as HaveibeenPwned and also take a look at the best identity threat protection software if it has been affected.
Infractions
The rape events themselves are increasing, increasing more than 36% year -on -year, which is reflected in the increase of almost 4% in the number of users notified of identity protection incidents.
Credit alerts that notify users about potential fraud alerts have seen an increase of almost 14%, and criminal record alerts, which report users about the possible misuse of their identity have also increased almost 12%.
Data violations are not the only thing increasing, since the scams and exploits of social networks have also increased.
For example, malicious push notifications that deliver scams increased more than 10% in the risk ratio for Germany, as well as almost 25% in Norway, and more than 22% in Denmark.
Financial threats obtained millions in profits in the first quarter, especially thanks to Deepfake and cryptocurrency scams fed with AI, with a Cryptocore group campaign that resulted in 2,200 fraudulent transactions, and reaping $ 3.8 million for the squamadores.
“The GEN Q1/2025 Gen’s Report revealed a scenario of evolution Real “, the report note.
