The attacks are often automated and hardly noticeable — frequently occurring in very short intervals, even before anyone notices the incident. A particularly frequently exploited gateway is the SSH service: The protocol itself is intended for secure administration, but exposed or poorly configured SSH servers are routinely attacked by scanners

The website is well visited, customers are placing orders, inquiries are coming in—and suddenly everything breaks down. Pages no longer load, processes come to a standstill, and the hotline is ringing off the hook. Often, such a digital blackout is not a technical coincidence, but a targeted DDoS attack. At

Time and again, newsletters that you never subscribed to end up in your inbox. They look legitimate, with a professional design and a credible sender. In the footer, there is an “Unsubscribe” button – but this is exactly where the danger lurks: One click can lead to phishing sites, trigger

You click on an article on a well-known news site, nothing unusual. But shortly after the page opens, a new window pops up. It claims that your device is infected with viruses and prompts you to download “security software” immediately. But you haven’t clicked on anything. What happened: A malicious

The door bursts open with a loud crash – that’s what brute force attacks look like in the online world. Instead of sneaking in subtly or exploiting vulnerabilities, the attacker literally fights their way into the system. To do this, they automatically fire thousands to millions of possible access combinations

An employee clicks on a seemingly harmless link in an email. No file is downloaded, no attachment is opened, everything looks normal. But in the background, a PowerShell script is launched directly in the working memory. No traces on the hard drive, no alarm from the virus scanner. Access remains