UK businesses under attack from phishing scams

 UK businesses are the most targeted by phishing attacks across the entire world, new research has found.

In its latest annual Internet Security Threat Report, which examines global threat trends for the whole of the past year, the UK ranked number one for phishing attacks both in Europe and worldwide.

The country also holds the ignoble position of being the European country whose citizens are most likely to be targeted in a social media scam and rates third globally. But UK residents are not just more likely to be targeted in cyber attacks.