According to the analysis of an American company published in the October issue of the German-language Swiss magazine Beobachter, nearly 5,000 attacks against IP addresses based in Switzerland have been recorded over the last five years. And over the last 12 months, they have soared. Indeed, since August 2020, more than 2,600 computer frauds targeting Swiss companies have been detected by the American firm Recorded Future. Faced with the upsurge in cybercrime, many companies have resigned themselves to paying ransoms or taking out special insurance against this type of risk. According to the magazine, the final number of attacks could be much higher, as a large number of companies discreetly pay the sums demanded by cybercriminals, most of whom are based in Eastern Europe, Russia, North Korea or Iran.
