A 2023 survey of working adults and IT professionals worldwide revealed that Microsoft was the brand most frequently abused in cyberattacks. In 2023, around ** million cyberattack messages impersonated Microsoft's brand name. Adobe ranked second, with *** million messages involving the brand in the examined year.
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