Every Third Computer Attacked was from the Manufacturing Sector
A new report from Kaspersky Lab found that in the first half of the year, the manufacturing industry was the most susceptible to cyberthreats – with the industrial control systems (ICS) computers of manufacturing companies accounting for almost one third of all attacks.
The Kaspersky Lab report, “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2017,” also found that the peak of attackers’ activity was registered in March, after which the proportion of computers attacked gradually declined from April to June. Also during the first half of the year, Kaspersky Lab products blocked attack attempts on 37.6 percent of ICS computers from which the company received anonymized information, totaling several tens of thousands. This figure was almost unchanged compared to the previous period – it is 1.6 percent less than in the second half of 2016.