Incidents as seen by entities
Increasing phishing frequency and
sophistication
From the perspective of the surveyed companies,
phishing has long dominated cyberattack statistics.
2021
2022
2023
39 %
40 %
Phishing
53 %
16 %
Scanning
26 %
28 %
21 %
17 %
17 %
Fraudulent email
14 %
7%
Malicious content
10 %
2%
4%
Spearphishing
7%
6%
6%
Other
12 %
0%
10 %
20 %
30 %
40 %
50 %
60 %
Figure 5: Most common cyberattack categories in 2021–2023 (% of respondents)
However, 2023 data indicate a significant rise in the use of this technique, with more
than half of respondents identifying phishing as the most frequent type of attack (Fig. 5).
An increase is also evident in the category of targeted spear-phishing attacks, aligning with the trend of increasing phishing frequency and sophistication observed
by NÚKIB.
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