In recent years, cybersecurity experts have warned that critical industry sectors were at higher risk of potentially catastrophic attacks if they were targeted by sophisticated ransomware or nation-state threat groups.
Those warnings appear to no longer be hypothetical scenarios, but increasingly have played out in real time as major industrial providers have seen their production capacities stalled for weeks and supply chains left in a state of paralysis.
The automotive sector, which is dependent on Internet of Things technology and wireless connections, and increasingly are built on AI, has experienced some of the most disruptive attacks in recent memory.
“The reality of modern cyber threats, particularly across critical infrastructure and manufacturing, demands a fundamental shift in mindset,” said Paul Shaver, Mandiant’s global practice lead for OT security at Google Cloud. “We need to stop seeing this as a game of pure prevention and start treating it as disaster preparedness.”
The global auto industry has become a prime target for sophisticated attacks from a variety of threat groups, said Matt Brady,…
