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Swiss companies are increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals. In the past quarter, every single company in this country was the target of an average of 1097 cyberattacks per week.
Attacks increased by 9% compared to the same quarter of the previous year, according to a study published on Friday by security researchers from Check Point Research (CPR). However, this puts Switzerland below the European average. In Europe, cyber security incidents have risen by 22%, making it the region with the strongest increase worldwide.
The risk in Switzerland has also increased accordingly. However, in terms of absolute figures, Swiss companies were attacked significantly less frequently than those in countries outside of Europe. In Africa and Latin America, each individual organization was attacked an average of 3365 and 2803 times per week respectively in the second quarter.
Companies in the education sector are by far the most affected by attacks. They are confronted with more than twice as many attacks as the global average (4388).
However, according to the report, government authorities and companies in the healthcare and telecommunications sectors are also frequently the preferred targets of hackers. A lack of security budgets and an abundance of data make these institutions particularly vulnerable.
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