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Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems
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Key facts
- The cybersecurity firm tracked 995 ransomware attacks against industrial orgs in 2023, a 49.5 percent increase from 2022
- Active ransomware groups targeting industrial orgs also grew in 2024 to 80 groups, up from 50 the year
- Dragos tracked 119 ransomware groups impacting more than 3,300 industrial organizations in 2025, and the incidents have steadily increased every quarter this year: 1,020 incidents in the first
- It’s usually quicker and easier for financially motivated crims to affect operations via IT systems
- as the extortionists did in the August 2025 Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) breach, which halted
Summary
Late Sunday night, a still-unknown cybercriminal or group hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores, spiking temperatures, spoiling food, and sparking fires. In August, a ransomware attack disrupted building-management systems at a Canadian hospital, affecting door access controls, central HVAC monitoring, and the issuing of staff access cards. And three years ago, cyberattacks hit Las Vegas casinos, causing slot machines to go dark, preventing payment kiosks and ATMs from spitting out cash, and locking guests out of their rooms when the electronic keys stopped working. Not all digital intrusions remain in cyberspace, and attackers don’t need to encrypt files and steal data to cause chaos.