In the United States, the country at the top of the list regarding hosting malware, botnets, phishing server hosting, and amount of botnet command and control (C&C) servers, we as a country face numerous cyber threats per day. Most of these threats come from spam sent to emails most of the time through what’s known as a botnet. Another form of Cyber attack that the U.S. faces on a daily basis consists of phishing, usually sent through email as well. Either targeting a business or an individual, the attacker could have a payday of anywhere between $1,800-$20,070 on average. A third major form of cybersecurity threats in America is the ever-growing digital piracy trend. The United States falls under the Cluster Three assignment of the highest levels of non-serious cyber crime with high levels of digital piracy and regular email spam. The U.S. has an internet connectivity rating of 90% as well as a GDP of over 21 trillion, both as of 2019. With the higher percent of American using the internet on a daily basis, it is more common that these users have a learned understanding of how to navigate around email oriented cyber attacks, possibly being a factor of why they are in cluster three.

Taking a look at a different country’s common cybersecurity threats, Brazil, a Cluster Four country characterized by the highest amount of phishing attacks (more specifically the advanced fee fraud) as well as general online fraudulent and malicious activities mostly done through email. According to Internetgovernanceproject.com, in 2018 alone, Brazil faced losses upwards of $20 Billion from malicious cyber attacks. These breaches most often came in the form of ransomware attacks through phishing emails. As of 2019, this fourth cluster nation only has a internet connectivity level of 60%, much lower than that of America’s. Possibly elucidating the higher level of attacks on account of the lack of internet familiarity. From 2019’s data Brazil’s GDP consisted of being short of just two trillion, also much lower than that of the U.S.’ This data tells us that the higher the economic status of the country doesn’t always mean that it is vulnerable to more threats, this money could be put in places that prepare and resolve these problems. As of the internet connectivity data, the more people are on and around the internet and learn of its fraudulent alleyways, the more these individuals will be able to avoid falling victim to a cybersecurity attack.