Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2020-2021. EU statistics

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All statistics in this report are from the global cloud service Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), which receives information from components in our security solutions. The data was obtained from users who have given their consent to it being sent to KSN. Millions of Kaspersky users around the globe assist us in this endeavor to collect information about malicious activity. The statistics in this report cover the period from May 2020 to April 2021, inclusive.

Main figures

• 70% of Internet user computers in the EU experienced at least one Malware-class attack.
  
• In the EU, Kaspersky solutions blocked 115,452,157 web attacks.
  
• 2,676,988 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by our Web Anti-Virus.
  
• 377,685 unique malicious objects were blocked by our Web Anti-Virus.
  
• Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were logged on the devices of 79,315 users.
  
• 56,877 unique users in the EU were attacked by ransomware.
  
• 132,656 unique users in the EU were attacked by miners.
  
• 40% users of Kaspersky solutions in the EU encountered at least one phishing attack.
  
• 86,584,675 phishing attempts were blocked by Kaspersky solutions in the EU.
  

Financial threats

The statistics include not only banking threats, but malware for ATMs and payment terminals.

Number of users attacked by banking malware

During the reporting period, Kaspersky solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more malicious programs designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 79,315 users.

Threat geography

To evaluate and compare the risk of being infected by banking Trojans and ATM/POS malware, for each EU country we calculated the share of users of Kaspersky products who faced this threat during the reporting period as a percentage of all attacked users in that country.
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