In 2020, the United States ranked first in the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) with a score of 100 index points. Among the countries with the highest commitment to cyber security, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia shared second place with a GCI score of 99.54 for each.
Here we've listed the ten countries with the lowest overall Cyber-Safety Score. The top three countries in terms of having a low Cyber-Safety Score are Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Namibia, which have a Cyber-Safety Score of 5.63, 18.60, and 19.72 respectively.
The 5 countries with the highest amount of breached accounts in Q3 of 2022 were Russia, France (13.8 million), Indonesia (13.2 million), the US (8.4 million) and Spain (3.9 million). These countries accounted for more than half of the total breaches globally in Q3 2022.
During the third quarter of 2022, over 81 percent of all mobile users in Iran were attacked by mobile malware. Yemen ranked second with a 19 percent malware encounter rate among mobile audiences. Saudi Arabia came third, with around 13 percent of mobile users in the country being attacked by malware.
High-Risk Locations
The U.S. government has identified a “pervasive threat” to information security from certain countries deemed “high risk,” including China and Russia. If you're working in a high-risk location, assume all data is compromised.
Block the top three attack countries
The majority of website attacks come from specific countries: China, Russia and Turkey. Because attacks from these countries are so prevalent, the firewall provides an option to block these countries from interacting (POST request) with your site.
India emerged as the third most vulnerable country in terms of risk of cyber threats, such as malware, spam and ransomware, in 2017, moving up one place over previous year, according to a report by security solutions provider Symantec.
The 2022 index's top 10 list of cyber powers, in order, is the United States, China, Russia, United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands, South Korea, Vietnam, France and Iran. While the United States has flagged North Korea's cyber activities as concerning, the country comes in at number 14 on the Belfer list.
Portugal – 8.21 cybersecurity score out of 10
This, coupled with legislation in five categories (national strategy, content, privacy, critical infrastructure and commerce), earned Portugal its title as the best European country for cybersecurity.
Countries targeted by ransomware 2022
In 2022, the number of ransomware attacks in the United States amounted to around 217.5 million, making it the most targeted country worldwide.
Number of malware attacks in 2022, by country
In 2022, organizations in the United States saw around 2.68 billion malware attacks, ranking first among selected countries worldwide. The United Kingdom (UK) ranked second, detecting nearly 433 million malware attacks, followed by India, with 335 million attacks.
Shaoxing, China was malware capital of the world last month. According to the company's research, nearly 30 percent of all malicious attacks came from China.
Chinese hackers used "stealthy" malware to attack critical infrastructure on American military bases in Guam, say Microsoft and Western spy agencies. Experts say it's one of the largest known cyber espionage campaigns against the US.
Kevin Mitnick holds the title as the world's most famous hacker ever, with this title dating back to 1995 by the US Department of Justice. Kevin Mitnick started hacking at an early age. He broke into the realm of public attention in the 1980s after he hacked into the North American Defense Command (NORAD).
Most reported types of cyber crime worldwide 2022, by number of individuals affected. In 2022, the most common type of cyber crime reported to the United States Internet Crime Complaint Center was phishing, affecting approximately 300 thousand individuals.
Australia has earned itself the title of most frequently hacked nation in the world this quarter, according to new findings from VPN provider Surfshark. The VPN service company found that in Q4 2022, Australia had the highest data breach rate in the world, with 7,387 user accounts per 100,000 being hacked.
"Roughly-one third of adult Australians, or around 6.4 million people, have been the victim of a breach in the last 12 months," Professor Biddle, from the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, said.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) assembled its own cyber power rankings last year, using a different method and system, but still concluding that in cyberspace, the United States is in a tier of its own.