Dragos OT Cybersecurity “Year in Review” Reports Rise in Geopolitically Driven Attacks, Ransomware, and Threat Groups
Summary: Dragos released its seventh annual OT Cybersecurity Year in Review on February 20, 2024, naming three new threat groups including VOLTZITE, which is linked to Volt Typhoon, and reporting a nearly 50% increase in ransomware incidents among industrial organizations. The report also recorded the first instance of a hacktivist group reaching Stage 2 of the ICS Cyber Kill Chain, while Dragos noted triple the number of organizations running tabletop exercises and a 350% increase at the board and executive level.
Key Takeaway: A hacktivist group - not a state actor - reached Stage 2 of the ICS Cyber Kill Chain for the first time in 2023, and ransomware incidents against industrial organizations rose nearly 50%, against infrastructure that adversaries can now attack at scale because it is shared across sites and sectors.
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