OT Systems Increasingly Targeted by Unsophisticated Hackers: Mandiant
By Eduard Kovacs on May 25, 2021 Unsophisticated threat actors — in many cases motivated by financial gain — have increasingly targeted internet-exposed operational technology (OT) systems, according to research conducted by Mandiant, FireEye’s threat intelligence and incident response unit. There are a handful of public reports of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS) causing significant physical damage or disruption. These attacks are typically launched by sophisticated and well-funded threat groups. While in many cases OT systems — particularly ones used for critical process...