Cybersecurity Report 2025

The Myra Cybersecurity Report 2025 offers IT decision-makers and security officers valuable insights for optimizing their cybersecurity strategy and sustainably strengthening their company's resilience. In particular, the report covers in detail:

✔ Current threat situation in Germany and the EU

✔ Cyber hotspot: critical infrastructure and the public sector

✔ Cyber risks in the 2025 federal election

✔ Measurability of DDoS defense readiness

✔ Challenges of efficient cyber defense

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The most important insights at a glance

Threat Situation

Artificial Intelligence

Critical Infrastructure & Public Sector

Federal Election in 2025

Cyber Threat Landscape
In the first half of 2024, a significant increase of 53% in malicious traffic flows was recorded compared to the previous year, with a peak in July.
Successful operations by international investigative authorities helped to defuse the situation.
AI: From Vision to Practice
The initial hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity in 2024 gives way to a more sober view.
Although half of all IT decision-makers still believe that AI can significantly improve their organization's IT security, the focus is now increasingly on specific business cases that deliver measurable benefits.
Critical Infrastructure & Public Sector
The risk of threats to critical infrastructure and public administration facilities has by no means diminished in 2024 – quite the opposite.
The spread of hacktivism and the increasing activities of politically motivated and state-sponsored cyber actors pose additional challenges for these sectors in particular.
Cyber Risks in the Context of the 2025 Federal Election
The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns of acute risks from foreign influence on the German federal election, including disinformation, cyber attacks, espionage and sabotage.
Classic malware such as ransomware and wiperware, as well as DDoS attacks and website defacements, can significantly affect the electoral process by destroying data, making information inaccessible and undermining trust.
In addition, supply chain attacks to sabotage election infrastructure are a threat, while social engineering and phishing methods allow cyber actors to obtain sensitive information that can be misused for disinformation campaigns.

Threat Level Between All-Time High and Easing

Managing cyber incidents caused by malicious traffic is an immense challenge for an increasing number of organizations in Germany and Europe. 4 out of 10 cyber incidents in Europe (41.1%) are due to DDoS attacks, followed by ransomware attacks with 27.3%.

Significant growth was recorded in the first half of the year up to and including July, after which a trend reversal set in.
Over the year as a whole, there was an increase of around 25% in malicious requests compared to the previous year.
The malicious traffic flows consist of DDoS attacks, bot attacks and malicious attempts to access databases via cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF) or SQL injection.

Expert Insights: The challenges of an effective cyber defense

In the interview, Christof Klaus, Director Global Network Defense at Myra Security, discusses the key factors for fast and effective cyber defense and the role of AI on the part of attackers and defenders.

(Download the report now for the full interview.)

What technologies does Myra use to quickly and efficiently fend off attacks?

We use a variety of different mechanisms to detect and defend against attacks. Insights into attacks and access patterns are always obtained from the most appropriate sources. Either a countermeasure is initiated at this point or the data generated here is merged with insights obtained elsewhere and then evaluated in a larger context.

What are the challenges in developing a highly automated protection system?

The challenges in developing these systems are also many and varied. Some of them can be counteracted by well-planned investments in hardware. This directly addresses aspects such as computing power, bandwidths, speeds, interfaces and the like. Other challenges, especially in the analytics environment, can only be solved by very specifically developed software solutions. In addition to the pure performance requirements for such solutions, architectural aspects such as horizontal scalability, redundancy, but also flexibility and targeted adaptability are of the utmost importance.