Startup businesses need to take cybersecurity seriously

It’s long been received wisdom that small and early-stage businesses are not worth cybercriminals’ time to attack. But new research from Proton shows that early-stage startup businesses are being targeted far earlier than their founders expect. In 2025, breaches derailed growth, exposed intellectual property, and shook investor confidence. Data from Proton’s Data Breach Observatory, a unique resource that monitors and reports cyberattacks and data breaches using information sourced directly from the dark web, makes clear that no business is too small to be breached. Almost half of the breaches seen involved compromised passwords. Weak logins and usernames are still the… [Continue Reading]