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Ransomware Trained on Manufacturing Firms Led Cyberattacks in Industrial Sector

Manufacturing was the No. 1 OT industry hit with ransomware last year, according to Dragos report. Manufacturing surpassed financial services as the most-attacked vertical (23.2%) investigated by IBM X-Force last year. Ransomware accounted for 23% of those attacks; the majority of attacks were on IT networks in the industrial sector, with just a few on their OT networks. Last year Dragos also discovered three “new” threat groups, Kostovite, Petrovite, and Erythrite.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ransomware-trained-on-manufacturing-firms-led-cyberattacks-in-industrial-sector

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