Cyberattacks and sabotage, mainly from Russia and China, have caused record damages for German firms this year, the domestic spy service and a business group warned Thursday.

The costs of such attacks topped 289 billion euros ($342 billion) in 2025, up eight percent on last year, said the corporate survey on attacks such as data theft, industrial espionage and sabotage.

“Increasingly the trail leads to Russia and China,” said the report presented by the BfV domestic intelligence agency and the Bitkom federation of digital businesses.

“Foreign intelligence agencies are increasingly targeting the German economy,” BfV vice president Sinan Selen told a press conference.

Selen — who is set to soon take over at the helm of the BfV — said hostile foreign intelligence agencies were “becoming m

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