the country most targeted by web attacks, suffering from over 238.6 million attacks during the fourth quarter of 2017. In 2017, the average costs of cyber crime in the United States amounted to 21.22 million U.S. dollars, the most costly worldwide.
The statistic shows the percentage of worldwide internet application attack traffic between November 2017 and April 2018, by originating countries. During that period of time, 30.1 percent of web app attack traffic originated from IP addresses in the United States. The United States were also Share of global web application attack traffic as of April 2018, by originating country
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Cyber security
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- Latin America: countries with most web application attacks in video & media 2019
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Akamai Technologies. (June 21, 2018). Share of global web application attack traffic as of April 2018, by originating country [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 27, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/276425/internet-attack-traffic-by-originating-country/
Akamai Technologies. "Share of global web application attack traffic as of April 2018, by originating country." Chart. June 21, 2018. Statista. Accessed January 27, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276425/internet-attack-traffic-by-originating-country/
Akamai Technologies. (2018). Share of global web application attack traffic as of April 2018, by originating country. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 27, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276425/internet-attack-traffic-by-originating-country/
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Akamai Technologies, Share of global web application attack traffic as of April 2018, by originating country Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/276425/internet-attack-traffic-by-originating-country/ (last visited January 27, 2023)
Share of global web application attack traffic as of April 2018, by originating country [Graph], Akamai Technologies, June 21, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276425/internet-attack-traffic-by-originating-country/