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Cyber incidents for the year 2025 in numbers

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The AV-TEST team monitored and analyzed the latest developments in cyber incidents in Europe and adjacent regions over the course of 2025. The current annual report highlights a changing threat landscape in which the targets of the attacks are increasingly becoming more sophisticated. In addition to the continuing threat posed by ransomware in economically advanced nations, the data clearly shows a concentration of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks in geopolitical hotspots. The challenges that enterprises and institutions face due to this trend are growing increasingly complex. And mitigating the impact requires an adaptation to their security strategies.

Cyber incidents reported by AV-TEST are based on extensive monitoring across the public Internet and dark web sources. It is important to note that these findings may not fully capture the entire spectrum of incidents that have occurred. [...]

LINK: www.av-test.org/en/news/cyber-incidents-for-the-year-2025-in-numbers/

AV-TEST - SITS Deutschland GmbH

AV-TEST is an independent supplier of services in the fields of IT Security and Antivirus Research, focusing on the detection and analysis of the latest malicious software and its use in comprehensive comparative testing of security products.

Due to the timeliness of the testing data, malware can instantly be analyzed and categorized, trends within virus development can be detected early, and IT-security solutions can be tested and certified. The AV-TEST Institute’s results provide an exclusive basis of information helping vendors to optimize their products, special interest magazines to publish research data, and end users to make good product choices.

AV-TEST has operated out of Magdeburg (Germany) since 2004 and employs more than 30 team members, professionals with extensive practical experience. The AV-TEST laboratories include 500 client and server systems, where more than 3,500 terabyte of independently-collected test data, containing both malicious and harmless sample information, are stored and processed.

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