Global spear-phishing attack distribution 2022, by type

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Aug 15, 2023
In 2022, 47 percent of spear-phishing attacks worldwide were scams, making it the most common type of cyber attack in this category. Phishing ranked second, with 42 percent of the attacks, while business e-mail compromise (BEC) made up eight percent of the total spear-phishing attacks.

Distribution of spear-phishing attacks worldwide in 2022, by type

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May 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022

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The source adds the following information: "This report presents proprietary spear-phishing data and analysis from Barracuda researchers, drawing on a dataset that comprises 50 billion emails across 3.5 million mailboxes, including nearly 30 million spear-phishing emails."

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