Global share of employees clicking on malicious links 2023

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Ani Petrosyan,
Jun 23, 2025

An October 2023 phishing simulation carried out at worldwide organizations found that *** percent of employees submitted passwords in the form embedded in the malicious webpage. On the other hand, *** percent of them clicked only the link, and **** percent did not click the link.

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Share of worldwide employees clicking on malicious links in phishing simulation as of October 2023

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February 2024

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Worldwide

Survey time period

October 9th to 27th, 2023

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