YoY change in human initiated attacks worldwide 2023, by sector

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Ani Petrosyan,
Dec 10, 2024

In 2023, there was almost 60 percent increase in the human-initiated attacks rate in the e-commerce sector. Additionally, the financial service sector saw an eight percent increase in human-initiated attacks rate. Overall, there was a 19 percent spike in human-initiated attacks.

Year-on-year change in human initiated attacks worldwide in 2023, by sector

CharacteristicYoY change in attack rate
Total 19%
Financial services 8%
E-commerce 59%
Communications, mobile, and media 11%
Gaming and gambling -3%
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Created with Highcharts 7.2.2YoY change in attack rate19%19%8%8%59%59%11%11%-3%-3%TotalFinancial servicesE-commerceCommunications, mobile, and mediaGaming and gambling
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April 2024

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Survey time period

2023

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Supplementary notes

Attacks in the Digital Identity Network are split by human-initiated attacks, which typically return full digital identity profiling data relating to individual events, and high velocity automated bot attacks.

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