ICS Threat Activity on the Rise in Manufacturing Sector
Summary: Dragos published a Manufacturing Sector Cyber Threat Perspective reporting that it publicly tracks five ICS-focused activity groups targeting manufacturing - CHRYSENE, PARISITE, MAGNALLIUM, WASSONITE, and XENOTIME - alongside ransomware capable of disrupting operations. As of October 2020, Dragos researchers had assessed and validated 108 advisories containing 262 vulnerabilities in industrial equipment found in manufacturing environments, and reported that 81 percent of organizations its services team worked with had extremely limited or no visibility into the ICS/OT network.
Bottom line: Dragos found that 66 percent of incident response cases involved adversaries directly accessing the ICS network from the internet, and 100 percent of organizations had routable connections into their operational environments - and it assesses with high confidence that threats to manufacturing will continue to increase over the next year.
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