November 2023 saw an unprecedented cyber attack on Denmark’s energy infrastructure. In a co-ordinated breach of 22 companies, criminal gangs gained access to industrial control systems.
Investigators believe at least one of the attackers was acting on behalf of a state. Michael Murphy, who heads Fortinet’s APAC Operational Technology group from the company’s Sydney office, says critical infrastructure was compromised: “Energy generation sites were forced into island operation mode, where they are no longer centrally managed.” He says the affected companies had a next-generation cybersecurity product in place that they assumed would protect them from any threat. It didn’t.
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Source: The New Zealand Herald News
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