BRP, Inc., best known as the maker of Ski-Doo snowmobiles, reported a cyber attack in August, 2022, that forced production shutdowns at factories in four countries for about a week after a malware infiltration from a third-party service.
The company said that some information about employees and suppliers had been compromised but characterized the loss as minor. In a press release, BRP said it was working to “restore all internal systems from its back-up repositories,” suggesting this wasn’t a catastrophic ransomware attack.
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In other recent cyber attacks on manufacturing companies…Bridgestone had to shut down tire production in North America and Latin America in an attack claimed by the LockBit ransomware gang, and the construction materials maker Knauf was knocked off production by the BlackBasta gang.
IBM Security’s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index for 2021 found that in attacking manufacturing, ransomware actors “wagered on the ripple effect that disruption on manufacturing organizations would cause their downstream supply chains to pressure them into paying the ransom.”
