According to Mitre Corp.’s online database, ATT&CK, there are currently 133 organized “threat groups” working out of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and elsewhere, many of them state-sponsored. and Canada are especially prone to attacks from these bad actors. According to some experts, the attack is still ongoing. Many of these belonged to the Pentagon, NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Nuclear Security Administration, as well as private companies such as Microsoft and Intel.
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There was also the SolarWinds hack that led more than 18,000 computer users to unknowingly install spyware on their systems. For instance, Americans would do well to recall the $4.4 million ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline that, thanks to a compromised password, took down the country’s largest gas pipeline for six days. The sad truth is that hacking happens everywhere and all the time. And “none of them have affected me or my business, so what’s the big deal?” Keep scrolling.
Scary stuff, right? But “at least none of these attacks happened in North America,” you may be thinking.
“Potential cyberattack detected on Ireland’s NUI Galway’s IT network.” Time to Wake Up “Cyberattack causes chaos in Costa Rica’s government systems.” “Brazilian e-commerce firm reports multimillion-dollar loss following cyberattack.” “Italian police thwart pro-Russian hacker attacks during Eurovision.” Google the term “cyberattack” and you’ll find page after page of news headlines, including several recent high-profile international ones. What are you doing about it? Although cloud computing and outsourcing of IT needs to regional data centers might seem less secure than “on-prem” hardware and software systems, the opposite is often true.
Bad actors are out there, fervently working to sabotage your factory and steal your stuff. Black hats, script kiddies, phishers, and hostile nation-states.
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