Security News > 2020 > June > Honda Ransomware Confirms Findings of Industrial Honeypot Research
Multistage targeted ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure, designed to maximize damage and recovery costs, are increasingly common.
The attack was captured by Cybereason's 2020 honeypot research.
This year the researchers "Identified multiple attackers executing ransomware operations involving data theft, the stealing of user credentials, and lateral movement across the victim's network to compromise as many endpoints as possible." Combined, the research indicates that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting critical infrastructure companies with increasingly dangerous attacks.
This premise is immediately confirmed by the news of a major ransomware attack against the Japanese Honda motor manufacturer this week.
"Snake ransomware," comments Morgan Wright, chief security advisor at Sentinel One, "Is designed to attack industrial control systems networks. The fact that Honda has put production on hold and sent factory workers home points to disruption of their manufacturing systems."