Europe
We've curated 98 cybersecurity statistics about Europe to help you understand how data protection laws and emerging threats are shaping the cybersecurity landscape across the continent in 2025.
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A coordinated series of DDoS attacks totaled 509 terabytes of data in 2025.
Active DDoS attacks were observed 88% of the time, equating to 322 days per year when systems in the Link11 network are targeted.
Three DDoS attacks surpassed 1 Tbit/s in 2025.
The strongest DDoS attack measured 1.33 Tbit/s and exceeded 120 million packets per second.
The longest recorded DDoS attack lasted 12,388 minutes (over eight days) in the Link11 network.
The top Russian-targeted EU countries in the last 12 months were Italy (18%), France (11%), and Spain (9%).
71% of incidents carried out by Russia-affiliated groups target organizations in European Union countries.
Europe and North America both experienced notable increases in the number of attacks compared to February 2025, with +11% and +9% growth respectively.
There is greater than a 70% probability that an initial DDoS attack is followed by at least one additional attack.
Financial services (82.74%) was the top industry targeted by phishing attacks in Europe in 2025.
30% of security leaders in the Netherlands report that AI is already improving security operations.
Europe accounted for 48.4% of all claimed hacktivist attacks, compared with the Middle East (17.7%) and Asia (17.5%).
North America accounted for 63.1% of all network-layer DDoS attacks globally, followed by the Middle East (16.1%) and Europe (13.7%).
Fraud rates dropped in Europe by 14.6% and in North America by 5.5%, while increasing by 9.3% in Africa, 16.4% in APAC, and 19.8% in the Middle East.
Cybercrime operators accounted for approximately 16% of cyber incidents in the EU in 2024.
Cyberespionage campaigns constituted 2.5% of all reported cyber incidents in the EU in 2024.
260 initial access brokers advertised to over 1,400 European organizations in 2025
38% of all reported cyber incidents in the EU in 2024 targeted the public administration sector.
Ransomware deployment speed increased by 48% as observed in 2025
Since January 1, 2024, more than 2,100 victims across Europe were named on extortion leak sites