For the Living Secure survey 2024, F‑Secure wanted to study the importance and impact that digital moments have on our daily lives, and whether they’ve shifted since our previous survey in 2022. The survey reveals that online worries are still prevalent, with technology like generative AI making scams harder to spot.
Digital moments: 2024 vs 2022
The only moment to drop out of the top 10 list was “Making voice calls”, which was ranked as 8th most important in 2022 (“Look for information & study” having replaced it). However, whilst the moments we deem to be important were essentially the same, there were some significant changes in frequency.
The evolving scamscape
Sadly, despite spending more time in our digital moments, the Living Secure survey reveals that we don’t feel any safer than we did two years ago; in fact, concerns have actually increased since 2022. Eight in 10 people now worry about their online safety and more than half of us (54%) have no idea if our devices are secure.
Welcome to “generation scam”
The Living Secure survey reveals that cyber crime has never been more prevalent. 85% of our survey respondents said they had received a digital scam attempt, with 4 in 10 people getting them on a weekly basis. And of the 7,000 people we questioned, 36% said that they get more scam attempts now than they did 12 months ago.