According to the LKA, the need for this center has reached an all time high. In 2015, the Baden-Württemberg LKA recorded 400 attacks on businesses. By 2016, the number of attacks had grown to nearly 1,200. They usually saw attacks similar to the attacks the IRS had warned US companies of in 2016 and 2017 . Business Email Compromise or BEC scams. “These are incredibly tricky schemes that can be devastating to a tax professional or business,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen reported. “Cybercriminals target people with access to sensitive information, and they cleverly disguise their effort through an official-looking email request.”

Source: German Law Enforcement to Trial Run a “Cyber-Armed Forces” Center