Threat Landscape · Facts as of September 5, 2026

Cyber Threat Landscape Switzerland: Figures and Facts

Insights from the Federal Office for Cyber Security (FOCS), leading incident response forensic reports, and AI offensive laboratories. Every figure verified against primary sources.

27,128

Reports

Cyber incidents reported to FOCS in H1 2026 (including over 200 mandatory reports from critical infrastructure), up 38%.

−7 days

Time to Exploit

Average time between public vulnerability disclosure and criminal exploitation in 2025. Negative: attacks routinely begin prior to vendor patch deployment.

31 %

of Breaches

originate through direct exploitation of known software flaws—surpassing credential theft for the first time in two decades.

10,000+

Critical Flaws

discovered within weeks by frontier offensive AI models in widely deployed software ecosystems.