Reports of Swiss cyber fraud almost doubled in six months

Reports of cyber fraud almost doubled in the second half of 2023. In light of these figures, the head of the new Federal Office for Cybersecurity (FOC), Florian Schütz, has presented a new strategy after just over four months in office. According to a press release issued on Monday, 30,331 reports of cyber incidents were received by the National Cyber Security Centre (the predecessor to the FOC) via the official reporting form in the second half of last year, compared to 16,951 in the same period in 2022. This was mainly due to fraudulent job offers and alleged calls from the police. + Read about the risks of cyberattack on aid agencies Companies mainly reported so-called CEO fraud and invoice manipulation fraud. Ransomware attacks on companies, on the other hand, were on the decline. These fell from 54 to 42. Phishing reports also doubled in the reporting period, from 2,179 to 5,536, with the FOC drawing attention to so-called chain phishing, in which phishers send emails to all ...