Spain is the ranked third among the countries hit by cyberattacks and the United States and the United Kingdom. Reports suggest that Spanish citizens, business and infrastructure have suffered from over 70,000 cyberattacks by 2015.
Spain has faced some very critical situations in the space of cyber crime. Spain monitored about 18,000 cyber crime incidents out of which 6,700 were due to unauthorized access into the system, 4,270 frauds and 1,745 due to virus attacks in the year 2014. Out of all reported incidents, the worst came in the year 2014 when an energy company was subject to a distributed denial of service that infected computers with the Trojan virus and crashed the central server. Within a span of three hours, 119 million connections in the server were due to denial of service.