Industrial threats

The report contains statistics on malware, initial infection vectors and other threats to industrial automation systems in Q4 2024.

Kaspersky provides incident response statistics for 2024, as well real incidents analysis. The report also shares IR trends and cybersecurity recommendations.

The Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response report includes trends and statistics based on incidents identified and mitigated by Kaspersky’s SOC team in 2024.

Kaspersky ICS CERT analyzes industrial threat trends and makes forecasts on how the industrial threat landscape will look in 2025.

The ICS CERT quarterly report covers threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q3 2024.

In this report, we share statistics on threats to industrial control systems in Q2 2024, including statistics by region, industry, malware and other threat types.

We performed the security analysis of a Telit Cinterion modem in course of a bigger project of security assessment of a popular model of a truck and found eight vulnerabilities.

In this report Kaspersky ICS CERT shares statistics on threats blocked on ICS computers globally and in separate regions in Q1 2024: share of attacked computers, most affected industries, most common types of threats.

Kaspersky ICS CERT shares industrial threat statistics for H2 2023: most commonly detected malicious objects, threat sources, threat landscape by industry and region.

Kaspersky experts make their predictions about ICS and OT threats: specifically, ransomware and hacktivist attacks, threats to logistics and transportation, etc.

In early September 2022, we discovered several new malware samples belonging to the MATA cluster. The campaign had been launched in mid-August 2022 and targeted over a dozen corporations in Eastern Europe from the oil and gas sector and defense industry.

In the first half of 2023, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased from H2 2022 by just 0.3 pp to 34%.

An unknown actor targeted an electric utility in southern Africa with Cobalt Strike beacons and DroxiDat, a new variant of the SystemBC payload. We speculate that this incident was in the initial stages of a ransomware attack.

In 2022 we investigated a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe. In the campaigns, the attackers aimed to establish a permanent channel for data exfiltration, including data stored on air-gapped systems.

Kaspersky Incident Response report for 2022: incident response statistics, key trends and conclusions, expert recommendations.