Cyberattacks on Swiss companies increase by 9 per cent
Keystone-SDA
Swiss companies are increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals. In the second quarter of 2025, a company was targeted an average of 1,097 times a week.
Attacks increased by 9% compared to the same quarter last 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.
+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox.
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 organisation was attacked an average of 3,365 and 2,803 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 (4,388).
More
More
Explainer: how vulnerable is Switzerland to cyber-attacks?
However, according to the report, government authorities and companies in the healthcare and telecommunications sectors are also frequently favoured targets of hackers. A lack of security budgets and an abundance of data make these organisations particularly vulnerable.
Adapted from German by DeepL/ac
We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.
Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. The news stories we select have been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team from news agencies such as Bloomberg or Keystone.
If you have any questions about how we work, write to us at english@swissinfo.ch
