One in three successful cyberattacks on Russian industry bears signs of espionage. The main events concern user accounts and their management. Hackers actively seek access and other data to infiltrate a business network undetected. socialbites.ca learned about this from the report of the Solar group at the disposal of the editors.
The report is based on data from external cyber threats, investigations and defense efforts, as well as analysis of cyber attack attempts against Solar JSOC customers. Nearly 600 thousand cyber attacks have been carried out on the industrial sector in the last three years.
Although only 1% of online data breaches concern industry, experts state that the main target of cyber attacks in this area is espionage. In some cases, hackers can remain undetected in a business’s infrastructure for months while collecting valuable information.
Vladimir Dryukov, Director of the Solar JSOC Cyber ​​Attack Center, states that such incidents are rarely made public because attackers try not to attract unnecessary attention.
Mass malware attacks are also common in the industry. For example, mining viruses pose a particular threat to the industry because the scale of distributed infrastructures and the complexity of monitoring security policies create favorable conditions for cryptocurrency mining.
According to sensors and honeypots in Rostelecom networks, industry and telecommunications account for 35% of all organizations in whose infrastructure viruses were detected. The average infection duration for industrial networks is 12.5 months.
According to the results of an analysis of the security of organizations, the industrial and telecom sector accounts for 22% of all detected vulnerabilities with a high level of criticality. Most of the vulnerabilities discovered were related to weak password policies (30%) and weak access controls (20%).
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Source: Gazeta
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