
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told German publication Die Welt on Thursday that the alliance is receiving an increasing number of state-sponsored cyber attacks.He said that in NATO’s most recent evaluations there was a monthly average of 500 threatening cyber attacks against NATO infrastructure requiring intensive intervention by experts.“That’s an increase of 60 percent compared to 2015. Most of these attacks did not stem from private individuals but were sponsored by national institutions of other countries,” he said.He highlighted that…