Leading cause of ransomware infection 2020 | Statista

This statistic depicts the leading causes of ransomware infections according to MSPs worldwide in 2020. According to the survey, 54 percent of responding MSPs indicated that phishing scams were the most common cause of ransomware infection.

Most common delivery methods and cybersecurity vulnerabilities causing ransomware infections according to MSPs worldwide as of 2020

Cause of ransomware infection	Percentage of respondents
Spam/phishing emails	54%
Poor user practices/gullibility	27%
Lack of cyber security training	26%
Weak passwords/access management	21%
Report clickbait	17%
Malicious websites/web ads	14%
Open RDP access	20%
Lost/stolen user credentials	10%
Lack of funding for IT security solutions	8%
Lack of executive buy-in for adopting security solutions	8%

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Release date

November 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Number of respondents

1,000+

Special properties

managed services providers

Supplementary notes

Multiple answers were possible. The source does not provide an exact date of survey.

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