2022 ICS/OT Threat Landscape Recap & What to Watch for This Year
Summary: Dragos adversary hunters tracked 20 ICS/OT threat groups in 2022, up from five in 2017, and in April 2022 Dragos and a partner announced the discovery of PIPEDREAM, a cross-industry ICS attack framework built by the threat group CHERNOVITE and the seventh known ICS-specific malware. Ransomware groups targeted manufacturing more than any other industrial sector, with 72 percent of attacks impacting manufacturers, and Dragos observed activity from 39 different ransomware groups against industrial organizations during the year.
Why it matters: Among Dragos' 2022 services engagements, 89 percent of manufacturers had limited visibility over their networks and assets and could not detect threats in their environment, while 82 percent had poor network segmentation and 82 percent lacked secure remote connections. The Kojima Industries attack showed how fast that exposure travels: when the Toyota supplier suspended operations, Toyota halted production too for lack of parts.
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