- Norton’s gentrely report reveals worrying trends in cyber security
- Scams and data violations are increasing
- Over a million records that were broken in the first quarter of 2025 alone
The latest Norton Gen threat report has revealed its conclusions regarding Q1 from 2025 – and although a decrease in the total number of blocked attacks could point to a reduction in threat activity, the finer details reveal some much more about trends.
It found that data stealing threats have seen a huge increase, with an increase of 186% in violated items, and violated user -e emails alone increased 102%. This means over 1.19 million records of ‘high severity’ or ‘critical severity’ affected – including plaintext -password codes.
Of course, this represents a huge danger of threat actors who could use these passwords for direct access to user accounts. We regularly recommend checking infringement sites such as GardenPwned and also looking at the best identity threat protection software if you have been affected.
Violations increasing
Violation events are increasing in itself and increasing over 36% years to year, which is reflected in the almost 4% increase in the number of users notified of identity protection events.
Circuit arms notifying users of potential fraud alerts have seen an increase of almost 14% and warnings of criminal items informing users of potential abuse of their identity have also risen almost 12%.
Data violations are not the only thing that is on the rise as scams and social media have also risen.
For example, malicious push notices that supply fraud rose over 10% in the risk ratio of Germany, as well as almost 25% in Norway and over 22% in Denmark.
Economic threats made millions in the 1st quarter surplus, especially thanks to AI -driven Deepfake and Cryptocurrency, with a campaign from the Cryptocore group, resulting in 2,200 false transactions and harvesting $ 3.8 million to scammers.
“The Gen Q1/2025 threat report revealed a developing trussel landscape in which cyber criminals are becoming more and more sophisticated, utilization of advanced technologies such as AI, Depth and Cross-Platform scams to exploit confidence and target their victims. These issues are not just technological;
