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Spear phishing and whaling attacks rate on organizations 2021

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Mar 17, 2023
A 2021 survey of IT security specialists worldwide found that 79 percent of organizations saw spear phishing attacks. Furthermore, 13 percent of respondents said their organization saw more than 50 such attacks. These types of phishing attacks usually target specific users.

Volume of spear phishing and whaling attacks on organizations worldwide in 2021

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Release date

May 2022

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2021

Number of respondents

600 respondents

Special properties

IT security professionals

Supplementary notes

Data is based on a survey of more than 600 IT security professionals from the United States, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
The source does not provide an exact date of survey.

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