Security News > 2021 > March > Kaspersky Sees Rise in Ransomware Attacks on ICS Devices in Developed Countries
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky observed a drop in ransomware attacks on industrial control system computers in the second half of 2020, but it saw an increase in these types of attacks in developed countries.
According to the company's Industrial Control System Threat Landscape report for H2 2020, globally, the percentage of ICS computers targeted with ransomware dropped from 0.63% in the first half of the year to 0.49% in the second half of 2020.
This data is collected by Kaspersky from ICS-related Windows devices protected by its solutions, including HMIs, SCADA systems, historians, data gateways, engineering workstations, computers used for the administration of industrial networks, and devices used to develop software for industrial systems.
In 2020, ransomware infection attempts were blocked on 0.77% of ICS devices protected by Kaspersky products.
Globally, roughly 38% of ICS computers protected by Kaspersky products were attacked in 2020 - with any type of malware, not just ransomware.
There has been a downward trend in the percentage of targeted ICS devices since the second half of 2019, but in the second half of 2020 that downward trend stopped and there was an 0.85% increase compared to the first half.
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