RANKED: The Countries Most at Risk of Cyber-Crime

⇒ Machines in the Netherlands are most likely to encounter cybercrimes; Ireland is least likely, ⇒ 10.17% of machines in Belarus encounter malware every month, making them the least cyber-secure country for malware encounters, ⇒ The UK and Ireland are among the countries least likely to encounter ransomware attacks and cryptocurrency mining (0.01% and 0.02%) The severity of cyber-breaches has become more and more intense in recent years. As a result, security experts at Specops Software sought to find out which (Western) European countries are the most cyber-insecure for citizens.To find out, Specops Software calculated which country is most likely to encounter cyber-crimes by analysing the percentage of cloud provider attacks on Azure and the monthly percentage of machines that encountered cryptocurrency mining, malware and ransomware. Overall: The results show the Netherlands is the most vulnerable European country to cyber-crime, with the highest rate of cybercrime. This could be due to the large number of cloud provider incoming attacks (16.28%) to Microsoft Azure....