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The current cyber threat landscape
What federal authorities, industry bodies, and insurers measure, distilled for executive leadership.
Cyberattacks: the top business risk
The situation is more serious than most assume. Even large enterprises with deep security budgets get breached.
No. 1
business risk worldwide
Cyber incidents lead the Allianz Risk Barometer 2026, for the fifth year in a row.
80%
of reported ransomware attacks hit the mid-market
BSI, the German federal cybersecurity authority, situation report 2025.
94%
of ransomware attacks target the backups
They succeed in 57 percent of cases. Sophos survey of about 3,000 victims, 2024.
- Bitkom, Wirtschaftsschutz 2026, presented with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. For 2026 Bitkom reports a range (211.0 to 270.8 billion euros); the chart shows the minimum. Source
- BSI, The State of IT Security in Germany 2025. Source
- Allianz Risk Barometer 2026, 3,338 respondents in 97 countries. Source
- Sophos, The Impact of Compromised Backups on Ransomware Outcomes, 2024. Source
Continuous incident documentation across DACH
Confirmed cyber incidents, law-enforcement disclosures, and sector exposure indices across the German-speaking region are documented continuously in the public Lagebuch published by our sister platform, derimeter.de.
View the public Lagebuch on derimeter.de
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