Global social media attacks rate among businesses 2021

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Mar 17, 2023
A 2021 survey revealed that 21 percent of organizations worldwide were targets of one to ten social media attacks. Furthermore, 34 percent experienced 11 to 50 cyber attacks generated via social media. Over a quarter of respondents said their organizations did not experience such attacks.

Volume of social media attacks on organizations worldwide in 2021

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Release date

May 2022

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2021

Number of respondents

600 respondents

Special properties

IT security professionals

Supplementary notes

Original question: How many social media attacks (like pretexting and account takeover attempts) did your organization experience in 2019?

Data is based on a survey of more than 600 IT security professionals across the United States, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
The source did not provide an exact date of survey.

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