The BSI report on the state of IT security in Germany presents alarming figures: in 2023, the Federal Office for Information Security registered an average of 68 new vulnerabilities in software products every day, resulting in almost 25,000 new vulnerabilities per year. Security-related errors were counted in programs of all kinds, from specialist applications for industry to server software for companies and smartphone apps.
Most of these vulnerabilities, around 47 percent, enabled the execution of unauthorized commands or program code. In this way, the attackers could, for example, install ransomware on a computer, bypass security measures, extend their own access rights, or read out data in order to sell it
