As soon as Wikileaks revealed to the world that it has valid documents to prove that US law enforcement agency CIA has the potential to hack any Smart Phone, Smart TV or devices related to Internet of Things existing on this globe, it surprised the entire world, along with those connected to the cyber security field.
Guestimating that people would more be interested in knowing some facts related to this genre, Tech services firm CompariTech has come up with some latest stats which gives info on countries which are most and under-prepared to cyber attacks. Along with those that are most susceptible targets to cybercriminals.
So, here’s the list of those countries with lowest malware infection rates in computers
- Sweden-19.88%
- Finland-20.65%
- Norway-21.63%
- Japan-22.24%
- Belgium-22.78%
- United Kingdom-23.38%
- Switzerland-23.94%
- Germany-24.12%
- Denmark-24.34%
- Netherlands-24.86%
The list of those with highest malware infection rates in computers
- China-49%
- Taiwan-47.34%
- Turkey-40.99%
- Russia-38.95%
- Gautamela-37.56%
- Mexico-36.89%
- Peru-36.23%
- Ecuador-36.22%
- Brazil-34.68%
- Poland-33.01%
List of countries where most users were attacked by Ransomware
- India-9.6%
- Russian Federation-6.41%
- Kazakhstan-5.75%
- Italy-5.25%
- Germany-4.26%
- Vietnam-3.96%
- Brazil-3.72%
- Ukraine-3.72%
- United States-1.41%
The United States stands as the top country which was hit by notorious traffic related to web applications. The percentage is 66% followed by Brazil & Germany with 5% and the United Kingdom at 3%.
The list of countries from which highest percentage of Global Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) originated
- China-29.56%
- United States-21.59%
- United Kingdom-16.17%
- France-8.72%
- Korea-4.06%
- Singapore-3.93%
- Japan-3.81%
- Vietnam-3.76%
- Germany-3.49%
The list of countries which were most hit by Cyber Espionage
- United States-54%
- South Korea-6%
- Japan-4%
- Russia-3%
- Columbia, Ukraine-2%
- Vietnam, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Phillippnes-1%
The list of top 10 countries that are the best prepared for Cyber Attacks
- Canada
- United States
- Brazil
- Norway
- Germany
- Estonia
- Oman
- New Zealand
- Malaysia
And the ones which are well prepared are as follows
- South Korea
- Namibia
- Lesotho
- Somalia
- The Central African Republic
The countries which are most vulnerable to cyber attacks are
- Belgium
- Dominican republic
- Hong Kong
- Samoa
- China
- Afghanistan
- Tajikistan
- South Africa
- Australia
And CompariTech has also prepared a list of countries which have the average cost of cyber crime in the world
- United States-$17.36 million
- Japan-$8.39million
- Germany-$7.84 million
- United Kingdom-$7.21 million
- Brazil-$5.27million
- Australia-$4.3 million
NOTE- The stats were prepared by CompariTech based on the resources such as telegraph.co.uk, freedomhouse.org, and statista.com