Frontline security predictions 2026: The battle for reality and control with agentic AI
The power and potential of agentic AI — adaptive, automated and independent — dominated security conversations during 2025. Barracuda asked four colleagues leading cyberthreat and security areas around the world, what they expect from agentic AI in 2026 and what this...
Email breach delays can multiply ransomware risk eight-fold
Email breaches affect almost all organizations. The new Email Security Breach Report 2025 reveals the worrying fact that 78 percent of organizations experienced an email breach in the last year. Only half of them detected the breach within an hour....
Why ransomware attackers keep coming back for more
Ransomware is an escalating threat, powered by its ability to evolve and adapt to a changing security landscape. Organizations around the world continue to fall victim to ransomware, often repeatedly, and the impact of these attacks can be devastating. We...
The MSP Customer Insight Report 2025: Key takeaways for success
Managed service providers (MSPs) have become indispensable partners for organizations navigating the security challenges that accompany business growth. These challenges include increased IT complexity, managing a spiraling number of security tools, and adapting security strategies to keep pace with expansion....
New global business research shows how security sprawl increases risk
International research for Barracuda shows that 65% of organizations believe they have too many security tools, and over half (53%) say their tools can’t be integrated. This lack of integration significantly weakens defenses, with 77% saying it hinders detection and...
Cyberthreat predictions for 2025 from Barracuda’s security frontline
Predicting the future isn’t easy, but you can anticipate what is likely to happen by looking at how things have evolved over the past year. This year again, Barracuda asked colleagues who work on the security frontlines about the things...
Threat Spotlight: Bad bots are evolving to become more ‘human’
The bot landscape is changing. Malicious — or bad bots — are evolving to become more advanced and human-like in their behavior, while an emerging category of AI bots, which we might think of as “grey bots,” is blurring the...
What we can learn from top tech advice we never listen to
October 2024 marks the 21st Cybersecurity Awareness Month – four weeks of themed activity designed to raise awareness of cybersecurity and the importance of staying safe online. For 21 years, this annual event has exhorted people and businesses to take steps such...
New report: BEC accounts for 1 in 10 email attacks
Email-based social engineering threats are thriving as attackers continue to adapt and evolve their tactics to increase their chances of success. The latest analysis of email detection data by Barracuda researchers reveals that while the landscape remains dominated by mass phishing and general scamming attacks, there’s...
Reducing our reliance on passwords to boost security
Data breaches remain a serious threat to every business. In 2023, about half of them reported experiencing a data breach, according to the Data Breaches Investigations Report. In the United States, more than 90 million accounts were breached in the third...
