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What Nations are Most Likely To Face a Cyber-Attack in 2023?
A new report suggests that internet users in Belgium are the least likely to experience a cyber-attack in 2023.Â
That is according to the latest Global Cyber Crime Report produced by SEON, the global fraud-detection and prevention company, which investigated which nations were most and least likely to face a cyber-attack.
Looking at 93 countries, the report examined how much of a threat cybercrime is in different regions, with the latest findings highlighting that European nations dominate the top ten least-risk nations.
Top 10 Lowest-Risk Countries for Cyber ThreatsÂ
Essentially, the report extrapolated date on where cybersecurity measures were the strongest, and where people were most protected through strong legislation and technology.
Belgium, Finland, and Spain came in with the top scores for cybersecurity, with scores of 90.69, 90.16, and 88.61 respectively.
Scores were created by taking the National Cyber Security Index (NCSI), Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2020 and Cybersecurity Exposure Index (CEI) 2020 scores and averaging them to create a mean average score.
The UK came in ninth place with a score of 85.59. This is despite recent research that said the UK experienced a 77% rise in cybercrimes over 2022, far out-pacing the global average of a 38% increase.
In the top ten lowest-risk list, only European countries appeared, and the UK was the only non-EU country to make the top ten.
Top 10 Highest Risk Countries
To put the other top ten in perspective, Afghanistan scored as the highest risk nation for a cyber-attack, with a score of 5.63.
The top ten list here had more of a global range, but no European countries appeared at this end of the spectrum.
African countries on the list included Namibia at number three (19.72), Libya ranked fourth (19.96) and Ethiopia ranked eight (24.54).
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Myanmar ranked second place (18.6), and Cambodia at sixth (21.47), with Mongolia at seventh (23.53) represented the Asian continent.
Representing Central and South America were Honduras at number five (21.33), Venezuela in ninth place (24.98) and Nicaragua at number ten (26.29).
