Manufacturers suffered the brunt of cyber attacks last year, overtaking financial services and insurance as the most targeted sector. As the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of the long, complex supply chains favoured by global manufacturers, hackers bet on the ripple effects that disruption would cause for them.
More than 45 per cent of the attacks were on vulnerabilities that victim organisations did not, or could not, fix using software updates, according to IBM’s latest Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index.
These findings underline the increased threat to industrial companies as they grapple with the challenge of securing decades-old legacy systems.