Booz Allen report identifies new threats to industrial control systems

Groups backed by nation-states are now conducting “sophisticated and widespread campaigns” to steal data and gain access to industrial control systems through cyber attacks, according to a new report on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure by Booz Allen Hamilton.

The report finds that industrial control systems are becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks such as ransomware.

For the first time, the critical manufacturing sector experienced more cyber incidents than the energy sector, the report finds, with ICS cyber incidents increasing...