Cyber Threats to Transportation Increase

Hacktivists launched a ransomware attack on the Belarusian state-run train company in a bid to disrupt Russian troop movements. To achieve this, the group deployed modified ransomware to bring down the railway system and encrypted servers, databases and workstations belonging to the Belarusian railway service. Conversely, a pro-Russia hacker group known as the Cyber Army of Russia targeted the Ukrainian government’s Department of Transport Safety. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has published its first cyber threat landscape report dedicated to the transportation sector. It maps and analyzes cyber incidents in relation to aviation, maritime, rail and road transportation covering the period of January 2021 to October 2022. In addition to the identification of prime threats and the analysis of incidents, the report includes an assessment of threat actors, an analysis of motivations driving their actions and introduces major trends for each sub-sector. While ENISA’s data collection process prioritizes incidents that occur in the EU, global events are also included such as a number of attacks on the aviation sector and transportation authorities in the United States as well as hacktivist attacks on Russia.

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