Security study by Bitkom51 billion euros in damage due to cyber attacks
In the last two years, every second company in the German industry has been the target of cyber attacks - according to Bitkom, the damage amounts to 51 billion euros per year. Who are the victims and who are the perpetrators? How badly is the mechanical and plant engineering sector affected?
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... employees to gain access to certain information. According to Bitkom, this is often preceded by targeted hacking or phishing attacks. With the help of information from the employee environment, the criminals then write deceptively real emails in the name of supposedly known persons, whose attachments the recipients open in good faith. In this way, Trojans get onto the computers, which then spy on passwords and other data.