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“One year after, the panic has subsided, but the threat goes on living. Attacks related to Shellshock continue to plague our digital world. Since the second quarter of the year, we have seen about more than 70,000 attacks using Shellshock and about 100,000 attacks using Heartbleed. One of our honeypots, which are vulnerable to Shellshock, has recorded 50 attacks in the past 15 days alone,” wrote Trend Micro.

That’s one of the takeaways from a report this week by security firm Trend Micro, which analyzed a decade’s worth of data breaches. The researchers found that businesses are at greater risk of hackings as they grow their online presence while hackers can more easily profit from stolen data.

However, unlike big companies, SMBs are less likely to use sophisticated security and backup solutions that can prevent ransomware infections and help them recover encrypted files, the Trend Micro researchers said in a blog post.

In Trend Micro's new report, dubbed "Understanding Data Breaches," the security firm explores who is most often targeted in data breaches, how they take place, and what happens to data once it leaves corporate networks.

Over the past 10 years of data breach history, 41 percent of breaches were caused not by hacking, but by device loss. Because of a particularly bad record of holding track of its devices, the healthcare industry has been responsible for more breaches than any other sector this decade, according to Trend Micro's analysis of the past 10 years of data breaches -- as catalogued by the nonprofit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.