The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a list of a half dozen threats last year that it viewed as having the greatest potential impact on everyday life. While these threats ranged in scope from aviation and transportation attacks, to climate and weather disasters, to disinformation, the threats from this list that Americans fear most are the ones related to cybersecurity.
In Spring 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to spread across the globe, a survey of approximately 250 U.S. consumers commissioned by Awake Security found that the two threats from the DHS list that worry Americans most are cyberattacks on core infrastructure (electric, water, transportation etc.) and cyberattacks on corporations.