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Cyber Security Statistics

Cyber crime continues to be a huge problem for individuals, businesses, and charities around the world, costing them over £4 trillion annually. To put that in perspective, if cyber crime was a country, it would be the third biggest global economy, after the USA and China.

Phishing is a huge cyber security problem. More than 75% of targeted cyber attacks start with someone at an organisation opening a malicious email - Rockstar Games GTA 6 leaked through social engineering.

The UK Government survey results show that in the last 12 months, 39% of UK businesses identified a cyber attack.

Bitcoin is increasingly used for making illicit payments and receiving the proceeds of ransomware attacks. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) estimated that more than £50 billion of illegal activity involved Bitcoin back in 2018, and this number is likely to be substantially higher today.

One quarter of all employees have noticed an increase in fraudulent emails, spam, and phishing attempts in their corporate inbox since the beginning of COVID-19.