{"id":237486,"date":"2026-04-30T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/uk-business-breach-rate-stuck-at-43-blame-the-phishing-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:10:17","slug":"uk-business-breach-rate-stuck-at-43-blame-the-phishing-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/uk-business-breach-rate-stuck-at-43-blame-the-phishing-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"UK business breach rate stuck at 43%… blame the phishing \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK business breach rate stuck at 43%… blame the phishing \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/30\/almost_half_of_uk_firms\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-30 07:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker’s big breakthrough is an employee clicking “sure, why not” on a fake login page.<\/p>\n

The UK government’s latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey, released on Thursday, puts the hit rate at 43 percent of businesses and 28 percent of charities reporting a cyber incident in the past year, equating to approximately 612,000 UK businesses and 57,000 UK charities, numbers that have barely budged since the last time it asked.<\/p>\n

Most of these breaches do not start with anything especially cutting-edge. Phishing leads “by far,” usually via impersonation emails that send staff to fake login pages or get them to click links, open attachments, or hand over sensitive information.<\/p>\n

Everything else barely gets a look-in. Around 85 percent of businesses that reported a breach or attack said it involved phishing, leaving malware, ransomware, and unauthorized access trailing some distance behind.<\/p>\n

Among businesses that report break-ins, about a quarter say they occur at least once a week, with a smaller share reporting daily occurrences. Charities are seeing attacks land more often, with the share reporting weekly incidents rising from 18 percent to 26 percent over the past 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Against that backdrop, there are signs that organizations are trying to get a grip of the problem. Around six in ten medium and large businesses report having a formal cybersecurity policy in place, and incident response planning and cyber insurance have both ticked up year on year. Larger organizations are consistently more likely to have these measures in place than smaller ones.<\/p>\n

Policies on ransomware are still a bit of a mixed bag. Around half of businesses (49 percent) and a third of charities (34 percent) say they have a rule not to pay up, about the same as last…<\/p>\n

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