After a year and a half of working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdown, nearly 70 percent of IT leaders in the United States and United Kingdom think that employees can expect a surge of 'back to work' related phishing emails as organizations around the world start to open up again. Meanwhile, only 8 percent were certain that this would not be the case.
Will employees in the U.S. and the UK receive a surge in phishing emails related to 'back to work'?
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Statistics on Phishing
Overview
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- Basic Statistic Number of global phishing sites as of Q1 2021
- Basic Statistic Phishing: number of affected brands as of March 2021
- Premium Statistic Phishing: distribution of attacks 2021, by country
- Premium Statistic Phishing attack rate among businesses worldwide 2021, by country
- Basic Statistic Phishing: most targeted industry sectors 2022
- Premium Statistic Phishing: most targeted organization types 2021
- Basic Statistic Global spam categories 2020
Click rates and reporting
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- Premium Statistic Employee interaction with malicious emails 2021
- Premium Statistic Why employees click on phishing emails in 2020
- Premium Statistic Employees that click on phishing emails in 2020, by age
- Premium Statistic U.S. and UK employees that have made security mistakes in 2021, by age
- Premium Statistic Time taken to report a suspected phishing emails in 2020
Phishing types and delivery methods
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Spear-phishing
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The COVID-19 pandemic and remote work
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- Premium Statistic Changes in cyber attack frequency following COVID-19 as of 2021
- Premium Statistic Key cyberthreats related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
- Premium Statistic Increases in cyber attacks according to IT professionals in 2021, by type
- Basic Statistic Post-pandemic cybersecurity priorities worldwide 2020
- Premium Statistic Remote work: importance of protecting users against phishing and cyber attacks 2021
- Premium Statistic Global cybersecurity incidents after remote work transition 2020
- Premium Statistic IT leaders' predictions for phishing emails relating to 'back to work' in 2021
Spotlight: Phishing in the U.S.
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- Basic Statistic Most commonly reported types of cyber crime worldwide 2021
- Premium Statistic Cyber crime: attacks experienced by U.S. companies 2021
- Premium Statistic Online security threats that U.S. consumers worry about in 2021
- Premium Statistic U.S. government: number of cyber security incidents 2020, by attack vector
- Basic Statistic U.S. government: number of department cyber security incidents 2019, by attack vector
- Basic Statistic Threat actors for cyber security incidents in U.S. healthcare organizations 2019-2020
Further related statistics
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- Share of phishing website blocks in China Q1 2019, by domestic server location
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022, by province
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2019, by server location
- Number of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022, by device
- Websites affected by phishing in China in 2012, by type
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022, by type
- Chinese websites affected by phishing in 2011
- Reaction to simulated phishing campaigns 2017-2019
- Cyber crime types committed against the financial sector in Hungary 2019
- Top registrars for TLD attacks 2018
- U.S. SME ransomware unleashing 2016
- Online brands most affected by phishing attacks 2018
- Number of worldwide phishing attacks 2012-2016
- Attitudes towards food in Finland 2022
- Top 3 New Year resolutions in the Netherlands for 2019
- Bars and nightclubs: Where consumers go to access in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013
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- Share of phishing website blocks in China Q1 2019, by domestic server location
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022, by province
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2019, by server location
- Number of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022, by device
- Websites affected by phishing in China in 2012, by type
- Share of times phishing websites were blocked in China Q1 2022, by type
- Chinese websites affected by phishing in 2011
- Reaction to simulated phishing campaigns 2017-2019
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- Top registrars for TLD attacks 2018
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- Online brands most affected by phishing attacks 2018
- Number of worldwide phishing attacks 2012-2016
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Tessian. (June 15, 2021). Will employees in the U.S. and the UK receive a surge in phishing emails related to 'back to work'? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 30, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253213/employees-phishing-emails-back-to-work-uk-us/
Tessian. "Will employees in the U.S. and the UK receive a surge in phishing emails related to 'back to work'? ." Chart. June 15, 2021. Statista. Accessed January 30, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253213/employees-phishing-emails-back-to-work-uk-us/
Tessian. (2021). Will employees in the U.S. and the UK receive a surge in phishing emails related to 'back to work'? . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 30, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253213/employees-phishing-emails-back-to-work-uk-us/
Tessian. "Will Employees in The U.S. and The Uk Receive a Surge in Phishing Emails Related to 'back to Work'? ." Statista, Statista Inc., 15 Jun 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253213/employees-phishing-emails-back-to-work-uk-us/
Tessian, Will employees in the U.S. and the UK receive a surge in phishing emails related to 'back to work'? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253213/employees-phishing-emails-back-to-work-uk-us/ (last visited January 30, 2023)
Will employees in the U.S. and the UK receive a surge in phishing emails related to 'back to work'? [Graph], Tessian, June 15, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253213/employees-phishing-emails-back-to-work-uk-us/