Microsoft researchers detected 300% increase in user account attacks over the past year. 44% growth in the number of account sign-ins attempted from malicious IP addresses. Two-thirds of incoming attacks on Microsoft’s cloud services came from IP addresses in China and the United States. Phishing attacks targeting online services made up the largest number of active phishing URLs during 1QQQ1. Ransomware attacks disproportionately hit customers in Europe compared with the rest of the world. Twenty-three respondents reported falling victim to ransomware, a slight uptick from 20% last year.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/microsoft-report-user-account-attacks-jumped-300-since-2016