Security News > 2024 > February > Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT... jackpot

Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry.

Operational technology security firm Dragos, in its 2023 year-in-review report [PDF], found 70 percent of all industrial org ransomware infections hit manufacturing companies.

Specifically: 638 entities across 33 unique manufacturing subsectors fell victim to ransomware last year.

Along these same lines: Dragos' report found that manufacturing continues to struggle the most with segmentation, compared to other industrial sectors.

The "Weird stuff" here is the OT and industrial control systems - in other words, the systems that benefit manufacturing companies' bottom line, and when disrupted, causes downtime and financial losses.

Manufacturing attacks still start in IT systems - for now.

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