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Ransomware, SCADA Access As a Service Emerging Threats For ICS Operators, Report Says

Ransomware and services that sell access to SCADA systems are emerging as new challenges for industrial control systems operators, Booz Allen Hamilton says. The energy sector, as usual, was heavily targeted and accounted for 16 percent or 46 of the 295 incidents. Nation state actors and criminal groups combined to make FY 2015 the most eventful year from a security standpoint, for ICS operators ever. For the first time, organizations in the critical manufacturing sector, such as transportation equipment manufacturers, electrical equipment and component makers, experienced even more incidents.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ransomware-scada-access-as-a-service-emerging-threats-for-ics-operators-report-says

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