In 2023, the most common cause or delivery of cyber attacks in the United States was Unpatched vulnerability, encountered by 23 percent of companies nationwide. Root cause unknown was the second most common origin of cyber attacks, with 22 percent of the attacks. Phishing and various types of human error were also likely to cause a cyber attack in the examined year.
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