Cybersecurity Statistics and Trends 2022-2023

11 Useful Cybersecurity Statistics and Facts

1. Over 300 billion passwords are being used by humans and machines all over the world. (Cybersecurity Media)
2. Only an average of 5% of companies’ folders are properly protected from cyber attacks. (Varonis)
3. Between 2005-2020, there have been 11,762 major security breaches. (ID Theft Resource Center)
4. .doc and .dot are the top malicious email attachment types which make up 37% and with 19.5%, .exe file type comes second (Symantec)
5. The information security market is estimated to reach $170.4 billion by 2022. (Gartner)
6. 36 billion data breaches have been recorded in the first half of 2020. (RiskBased)
7. Hacking featured 45% of the total breaches, while 17% involved malware attacks and 22% involved phishing attacks. (Verizon)
8. Cybersecurity risks are increasing day by day, feels 68% of the business leaders (Accenture)
9. 86% of the breaches were financially driven while 10% were motivated by espionage. (Verizon)
10. 88% of companies around the world experienced spear-phishing attempts in 2019. (Proofpoint)
11. Human errors caused 95% of the total cybersecurity breaches. (Cybintsolutions)

14 Alarming Cybersecurity Statistics That You Must Know

The compilation of the latest security trends & statistics by Cybertalk

1. Cryptocurrency crime is predicted to surpass $30 billion by 2025. (Cybersecurity Ventures)

2. There will be one ransomware attack every 11 seconds by 2022. (Cybersecurity Ventures)

3. The healthcare industry has seen a 51% increase in breaches in the last three years. (Herjavec Group)

4. Software supply chain attacks have increased by 650% in 2021. (VentureBeat)

5. In 93% of cases, cybercriminals can penetrate an organization’s networks. (Positive Technologies)

6. Over 84% of all cyberattacks were distributed via e-mail in 2021. (Checkpoint)

7. By 2021, organizations experienced the highest average cost of a data breach in 17 years at $4.24 million. (IBM)

8. The infamous .exe file type is making up 52% of all malicious files. (Checkpoint)

9. In a recent phishing attack, $7 million in NFTs were stolen from OpenSea users. (The Verge)

10. Cyberattacks are up 50% in 2021 largely due to Log4j exploitations (Checkpoint)

11. 43% of all cyber-attacks are aimed at small businesses. (Accenture)

12. Corporate networks experienced 31% of all cyberattacks in the form of Botnets. (Checkpoint)

13. Trickbot malware is making up 11% of all corporate network attacks globally. (Malwarebytes)

14. With an average of 1,605 weekly cyberattacks, Education and Research organizations were the most targeted sectors. (Checkpoint)