Ransomware attacks, supply chain hacks, escalating tensions with Iran

  • Ransomware attacks are truly nothing new at this point, but 2019 is looking like a banner year for them
  • A destructive strain called LockerGoga has specifically been victimizing industrial and manufac­turing firms
  • Forcing production plants to switch to manual control or exacting long-term damage in systems that control physical equipment
  • A legitimate software vendor pushes out what looks like a trustworthy software update to users, but it’s really a destructive instrument of cyberwar. 
  • Russian hackers spread destructive malware in part by compromising the update mechanism for a Ukrainian accounting application.

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