{"id":239644,"date":"2026-07-02T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/most-cybersecurity-workers-have-been-told-to-conceal-a-breach-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:40:08","slug":"most-cybersecurity-workers-have-been-told-to-conceal-a-breach-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/most-cybersecurity-workers-have-been-told-to-conceal-a-breach-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Most cybersecurity workers have been told to conceal a breach, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most cybersecurity workers have been told to conceal a breach, report finds<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/data-breach-coverups-ai-bitdefender\/824331\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-02 10:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Author: <\/a><\/p>\n

Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

Dive Brief:<\/p>\n

Slightly more than half of cybersecurity professionals think AI is helping attackers more than defenders, the security firm Bitdefender found in a new report.
\nMalware improvements, social-engineering techniques and attack behavior (such as lateral movement and automatic vulnerability scanning) topped the list of AI-related threat vectors worrying respondents to Bitdefender\u2019s survey.
\nThe report also highlights shadow AI concerns, breach cover-ups and security confidence gaps between leaders and workers.<\/p>\n

Dive Insight:
\nOne of the most striking findings in Bitdefender\u2019s annual report is the fact that 55% of workers said they were told to keep quiet about a breach. That number rose from 42% in 2024 to 58% in 2025 before plateauing this year. \u201cThat plateau is arguably just as troubling as the initial spike,\u201d Bitdefender analysts wrote.
\nThe security firm posited that while organizations are working to incorporate U.S. and European breach-disclosure regulations, \u201ccultural change lags behind policy change.\u201d
\n\u201cChanging behavior may require making disclosure feel less punishing,\u201d analysts wrote. \u201cOr perhaps the opposite: making secrecy impossible to justify.\u201d
\nBitdefender\u2019s report is based on a survey of 1,200 IT and cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. and five other countries between April and June, with respondents representing frontline workers, mid-level managers and executives.
\nMore than half of respondents reported experiencing data breaches or other cybersecurity incidents over the 12 months leading up to the survey period, with 42% citing unauthorized cloud access, 36% citing business email compromise (BEC) and 26% citing ransomware. BEC was most common in the U.S., while unauthorized cloud access predominated in the other five survey countries: the U.K., France, Germany, Singapore and Italy.
\nThe shadow AI problem also exhibited regional differences. Respondents in the U.S. were most likely to report having full visibility into their organizations\u2019 AI usage (63%), followed by the U.K. (58%) and Germany (52%).
\nThat finding matched a broader confidence gap between organizations in the U.S. and those elsewhere. \u201cU.S. respondents are simultaneously the most strained and the most confident in our entire dataset,\u201d Bitdefender said. \u201cThey report higher rates of breach concealment, more AI-driven attacks, and greater tool complexity. And yet they also report higher confidence in their security posture, stronger vendor relationships, and greater willingness to invest.\u201d
\nIn one of the report\u2019s more troubling findings, managers were significantly more confident in their cybersecurity practices than frontline employees were. The biggest gap \u2014 12 percentage points \u2014 appeared on the issue of full AI visibility, while smaller but still significant gaps also appeared on other issues, including alignment between cybersecurity defenders and the broader business (7.4 points).<\/p>\n

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