The data comes from Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2022 (via ZDNet), which analyzed trillions of signals from the Redmond company’s global ecosystem of products and services to reveal the scale of cyberthreats worldwide.
The number of hacking incidents has jumped enormously over the last year, thanks primarily to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and the resulting cyberwarfare between nations. But hackers still favor password-based attacks; Microsoft estimates that 921 of these take place every minute.
