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Australia
Australia faces state-linked espionage, ransomware and large-scale customer data theft.
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Countries. Who Is Targeted Where.
How each country is targeted: the sectors attackers go after, the groups active there and the national bodies to know.
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan faces espionage by state-linked groups, hacktivist defacements, DDoS attacks on telecoms and widespread online fraud against citizens.
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Country Latin America
Brazil
Brazil faces banking trojans and fraud, ransomware against health services and other organizations, and state-linked campaigns.
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Country North America
Canada
Canada faces state espionage, ransomware against hospitals, governments and critical infrastructure, and pro-Russia denial of service campaigns.
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Country Middle East
Egypt
Egypt's cyber risk is shown by surveillance of political figures, regional espionage, fraud and large personal data sales.
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France
France faces espionage by state-linked groups, data theft and ransomware, and attacks around big events such as the Paris 2024 Games.
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Germany
Germany faces cyber espionage by state actors, ransomware against companies and local governments, and DDoS campaigns against critical infrastructure.
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India
India is one of the world's largest digital economies, and its government reports millions of cyber incidents a year, with over 29.44 lakh handled by CERT-In in 2025.
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Indonesia
Indonesia is a large digital economy where cyber risk is shaped by ransomware, data leaks and fraud against banks and public bodies.
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Ireland
Ireland is a European country whose national cyber center (NCSC) leads the response to major cyber incidents.
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Israel
Israel is a small, highly connected country that faces frequent cyber activity linked to the region's conflicts.
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Italy
Italy faces ransomware, DDoS campaigns by pro-Russian groups and data exposure.
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Japan
Japan faces cyber espionage linked by its police to China and North Korea, ransomware against manufacturers and smaller firms, and theft of crypto assets.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan faces fast-growing cybercrime, mostly theft of personal data, and DDoS waves against its national internet and state sites.
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Country Latin America
Mexico
Mexico faces attacks on banks and payment systems, attacks on state bodies and companies, and banking fraud.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands faces cyber espionage by Russian and Chinese state actors, ransomware, DDoS attacks and data leaks through suppliers.
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Country Africa
Nigeria
Nigeria is one of Africa's largest digital economies, and its own cyber agency says government websites have been defaced and hit by ransomware.
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Pakistan
Pakistan appears in MITRE ATT&CK and US government texts as a target of South Asian and Chinese espionage groups and as one of the nations a North Korean bank-robbing…
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Country Europe
Poland
Poland faces cyber threats from state-linked actors such as APT28, Sandworm and Dragonfly, and from ransomware families such as LockBit.
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Country Middle East
Qatar
Qatar is a small, wealthy Gulf state with a national cyber agency that runs yearly drills and sets security standards.
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Romania
Romania is targeted by Russian state-linked actors and hacktivists, according to official sources.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is a Gulf state whose energy, aviation, government and telecommunications sectors have been named by official sources as targets of Iran-linked and other…
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Singapore
Singapore faces state-linked espionage against its critical infrastructure, ransomware against businesses and a large volume of botnet infections.
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Country Africa
South Africa
South Africa has seen ransomware against national departments and state companies, and large leaks of personal data.
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South Korea
South Korea faces cyber espionage and destructive attacks linked by official sources to North Korean state groups, and large data breaches at telecom and retail firms.
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Spain
Spain faces fraud, malware and ransomware, and its public bodies have been hit directly.
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Taiwan
Taiwan faces constant cyber pressure that its National Security Bureau ties to China: 2.63 million intrusion attempts a day against critical infrastructure in 2025, by…
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Türkiye
Türkiye faces cyber threats from state-linked groups and criminals.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is the country where Russian state cyber operations have been most destructive, from the 2015 power grid attack to wiper malware in 2022.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates is a Gulf state with a national Cyber Security Council and separate bodies in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom faces cyber threats from states and from ransomware crews.
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United States
This page collects what matters for cyber threats in the United States: the sectors attackers go after, the threat groups that US government sources link to the country…
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