A multi-country survey by the British insurer Hiscox on Tuesday shows that security authorities around the world are struggling in the fight against cybercrime.
The latest edition of the annual comparison of eight countries shows that 53 per cent of the companies surveyed reported cyber attacks. According to Hiscox, cyber criminals were now increasingly attacking small and medium-sized businesses, in all eight countries, 36 per cent of the affected companies had less than ten employees, an increase by half compared to 2021.
During the study, it was discovered that 58 of German companies were attacked by hackers on one or more occasions, Hiscox’s Munich-based German subsidiary had announced.