Newsletter: Tenable Research in Verizon DBIR: Additional Research Analysis

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Vulnerability exploitation surged as the initial access vector for 20% of breaches—a 34% increase year over year and now rivalling the top initial access vector (credential abuse), according to the newly released 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). To dig deep into this risk, Tenable contributed enriched data on the most exploited vulnerabilities to the Verizon DBIR and published a complementary deep-drive analysis.