
| Characteristic | Share of respondents |
|---|---|
| Business email compromise/ Account takeovers | 33% |
| Ransomware | 32% |
| Attacks against cloud management interfaces | 31% |
| Hack-and-leak operations | 30% |
| Third-party breach | 29% |
| Exploits of cloud component services | 28% |
| Software supply chain compromise | 26% |
| Theft of intellectual property for the purpose of commercialisation | 26% |
| Attacks on industrial internet of things (IIoT) or OT | 26% |
| Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks | 25% |
| Exploitation of misconfiguration | 23% |
| Exploits of zero-day vulnerabilities | 23% |
| Disinformation | 22% |
| Unauthorized cryptomining | 20% |
| Hardware supply chain implants | 19% |
| Nation-state traditional espionage (cyber and/or physical attacks) | 17% |
| Nation state-sponsored attack on critical infrastructure | 11% |
| None of the above | 3% |
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Release date
November 2022
Region
Worldwide
Survey time period
July to August, 2022
Number of respondents
3,522 respondents
Special properties
Business, technology and security executives
Method of interview
Online survey
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