Annual increase of phishing attacks on businesses 2019

Phishing attacks on businesses increased in 2019. According to a survey of IT security professionals, 40 percent of respondents stated that their organization had experienced an increased rate of phishing attacks compared to the previous year.

Annual increase of phishing attacks on organizations according to IT security professionals worldwide in 2019

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Increase	40%
Decrease	22%
Stayed about the same	36%
I don't know	2%

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Release date

January 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2019

Number of respondents

600 respondents

Special properties

IT security professionals

Supplementary notes

Original question: Has the rate of phishing attacks on your organization increased or decreased in 2019 compared to 2018?

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

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