Top attack categories of cyber attacks worldwide 2017

Most common attack categories of cyber attacks worldwide as of 2017

CharacteristicShare of cyber attacks
Website application attack 16%
Service specific 8%
Application specific 6%
DoS/DDoS 6%
Other 64%
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Release date

September 2017

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017

Number of respondents

10,000 respondents

Special properties

security clients on six continents

Supplementary notes

Six regions covered: Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

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