Number of phishing cyber attacks in Japan 2013-2020
The police in Japan recorded almost 4.12 thousand spear phishing e-mail attacks in 2020. The number declined for the second year in a row. Unlike other phishing e-mails, spear phishing attacks are targeting specific persons or companies. A breakdown of attached files to spear phishing e-mail attacks in 2020 shows that Word files were by far the most common type during that year.
