Cyber Risk High for Oil & Natural Gas Organizations Around the Globe
Summary: Dragos published an Oil & Natural Gas Cyber Threat Perspective assessing cyber risk to the ONG sector as high, citing an increasing number of adversaries targeting oil and natural gas industrial organizations. Dragos data shows ransomware attacks on industrial control systems rose over 500 percent between 2018 and 2021, with five percent of those attacks hitting oil and gas entities, and it details 10 tracked Activity Groups in the sector.
What's compelling: Ransomware adversaries are increasingly adopting ICS-specific process kill lists, as seen in EKANS, Megacortex, and Clop, giving them the demonstrated ability to stop industrial processes in the OT environment. A disruption can occur at any point across upstream, midstream, or downstream operations.
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