Prepare For What’s Coming with the 2023 OT Cybersecurity Year in Review
Summary: Dragos announced its 2023 OT Cybersecurity Year in Review, a report it describes as turning last year's OT cybersecurity developments into lessons and strategies for 2024. Its recap of the prior year's report cites PIPEDREAM as the seventh known ICS-specific malware, following STUXNET, HAVEX, BLACKENERGY2, CRASHOVERRIDE, TRISIS and Industroyer2, and states that Dragos-tracked OT threat groups reached 20 in 2022, a 300 percent increase in observable OT threat groups active at one time since 2017.
Why it matters: Dragos counts 20 tracked threat groups active against OT, up 300 percent since 2017, and notes that ransomware groups have disrupted OT networks through kill processes built into strains, flattened networks, and precautionary shutdowns - so the incident that stops your plant may not be an ICS-specific attack at all.
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