EU: most affected countries by malware attacks 2017

This statistic displays a ranking of the ten European Union countries with the highest malware encounter rates as of January 2017. Bulgaria was the country with the highest encounter rate, followed by Romania and Hungary.

Ranking of the ten European Union countries with the highest malware encounter rates as of January 2017

Characteristic	Encounter rate*
Bulgaria	19.5%
Romania	18%
Hungary	17.8%
Ireland	17.7%
Latvia	15.2%
Lithuania	15.2%
Croatia	14.3%
Slovenia	13.2%
Spain	12.9%
Portugal	12.8%

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Release date

April 2017

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Region

Spain

Survey time period

Q1 2017

Special properties

100,000 computers at least

Supplementary notes

* Encounter rate is simply the percentage of computers running Microsoft real-time security products that report a malware encounter. Encountering a threat does not mean the computer has been infected. Only computers whose users have opted in to provide data to Microsoft are considered when calculating encounter rates.

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