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AGCO faces ransomware attack, hampering company’s production facilities

AGCO faces ransomware attack, hampering company’s production facilities

Agricultural machinery company AGCO announced Friday that ‘on May 5, 2022, it was subject to a ransomware attack that has impacted some of its production facilities.’ The company did not provide details of the facilities affected, the type of systems…

ransomware offensives

Industrial sector faced supply chain attacks and ransomware offensives in 2021

Looking back at the key cybersecurity trends, 2021 was undoubtedly the year when the industrial sector had to reckon with serious ransomware offensives and supply chain attacks. The surging cybersecurity threat landscape has demonstrated that operational and production disruption is…

cybersecurity framework

NIST cybersecurity framework prescribes ransomware risk management across ICS, OT environments

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released Draft NISTIR 8374 that prescribes a cybersecurity framework profile to cover ransomware risk management across organizations and operators of industrial control systems (ICS) or operational technologies (OT) environments. The ransomware…

cybersecurity performance goals

Baseline objectives identified by CISA, NIST for cybersecurity performance goals

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have identified nine categories of recommended cybersecurity practices and used these categories as the foundation for preliminary control system cybersecurity…

NEW Cooperative

BlackMatter ransomware group strikes NEW Cooperative, makes demand of $5.9 million

NEW Cooperative, has been targeted by the BlackMatter ransomware group. The weekend ransomware attack to the food critical infrastructure sector comes with the hackers initially making a demand for US$5.9 million, which will increase to $11.8 million, if the pay-off…