How cyber attackers are targeting industrial machines in 2022 & 2023

It was a unique year for big machines.

In 2022, there were two new entries into what some call an "elite league of malware" --- malware directed at industrial machines that run our world, from power plants to traffic lights to water.

What does it mean to have two new players in this hall of infamy, now at a total of seven? We take a look at the impacts this year, plus at what could happen in 2023.

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Story originally published December 22, 2022.

See print version here at Ampyx News (formerly called Ampere News).

 

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