In 2025, Europe faced a wave of cyber attacks: from airport disruptions and allegations of election sabotage to GPS spoofing on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s flight and assaults on satellites in space.
The continent was among the hardest hit, accounting for 22 percent of all global ransomware attacks, where data is stolen, encrypted, and then exchanged for a ransom. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks also surged, with 3.2 million recordedthroughout Europe, the Middle East, and African countries in the first part of the year alone.
