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Statistics

Year 2024​

  1. Microsoft customers are attacked over 600 million times per day. (Microsoft, 2024)
  2. Microsoft have seen a 2.75x year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks, however a threefold decrease in ransomware attacks reaching decryption stage. (Microsoft, 2024)
  3. Tech Scams have skyrocketed 400% since 2022. (Microsoft, 2024)

Year 2023​

  1. 37% of all traffic from threat actors is RDP related. (Coalition Inc)
  2. Businesses with RDP exposed to the internet are the most likely to experience a ransomware event. (Coalition Inc)

Year 2022​

Year 2021​

  1. Cyberattacks are more likely to bring down F-35 jets than missiles. (Interesting Engineering, 2021)

Year 2020​

  1. Over 75% of targeted cyberattacks start with an email. (RoundRobin, 2020)
  2. In 2020, the FBI received 15,421 internet crime complaints related to tech support fraud and from victims in 60 countries. (FBI, 2020)
  3. Global cybercrime costs are expected to grow by 15% per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. (Cybersecurity Ventures, 2020)
  4. More than half of all consumers have experienced a cybercrime, with around one in three falling victim in the past year alone. (Norton, 2021)
  5. In 2020, the FBI received more than 2,000 internet crime complaints per day. (FBI, 2020)
  6. The healthcare industry is expected to spend $125 billion on cybersecurity from 2020 to 2025. (Cybersecurity Ventures, 2020)
  7. The first half of 2021 saw a 102% increase in cybercrime involving ransomware compared to the beginning of 2020. (Check Point, 2021)