State-sponsored attackers are systematically weaving AI throughout their entire attack chains and leveraging legitimate cloud services for obfuscation, circumventing traditional security controls.
Cyberattacks on the Saxony-Anhalt state administration more than doubled in the first half of 2024, underscoring heightened demands for defensive measures and NIS2 Directive compliance.
Passwords remain widespread in enterprises because they are familiar, not because they are secure — security teams are therefore migrating to identity-based authentication.
AI requires security boundaries through four-level governance—from training through access control to network monitoring—because AI agents act with user rights and create new attack surfaces.
The EU imposes sanctions on Russia for coordinated cyberattacks carried out jointly by intelligence agencies and criminal actors, also targeting German institutions.
State-sponsored cyber actors from China and North Korea are intensifying attacks on technology companies targeting data acquisition, industrial espionage and extortion.
Open-source AI model with local deployability and halved operational costs reduces access barriers to cyberattack tools for a broader spectrum of actors.
