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Cybercrime is one of the most relevant crime fields.Hesse's state authorities made ten criminal complaints last year after Hacker tried to take advantage of weaknesses. Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - to take advantage of weaknesses is one of the preferred attack methods of hackers.In 2024, Hessian state authorities provided ten criminal charges for appropriate cyber attacks.This emerges from the response from the Hessian Ministry of the Interior to a small request from the FDP faction in the Wiesbaden state parliament.In 2023 there were four advertisements, the year before that, from 2015 to 2024, 61 received corresponding criminal complaints. The ministry explained that the resolutions of weaknesses in the own IT infrastructure are part of the daily work of the employees dealing with information security.The number of vulnerabilities remedied daily is therefore moving in the two to three-digit range. Controls and emergency exercises To protect against cyber attacks, the authorities of the country and the municipalities are obliged, among other things, to regularly review and assess the IT procedures and systems.In addition, the Hesse CybercompetenceCenter (Hessen3c) in cooperation with the central IT service provider of the state administration weakness reports and warning messages. Hessen3c was founded in 2019 and is located at the Ministry of the Interior.The experts support, among other things, municipalities, but also small and medium -sized companies according to a cyber attack. In addition, there are other regular test measures and methods such as automated vulnerability scans, controls to compromised passwords and phishing campaigns.According to the information, regular emergency exercises take place.