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Europe’s cybersecurity agency predicts that hackers will take advantage of growing overlap between information and operational technologies in the transport sector and disrupt OT processes in a targeted attack.
Recorded attacks in Europe and globally against the aviation, maritime, rail and road sectors are going up, says the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity in a report analyzing transport sector incidents from January 2021 until October 2022. The overall increase in known attacks could be a consequence of reporting requirements under the European Union directive on security of network and information systems, ENISA allows, but it says ransomware attacks have grown in frequency and will become a tool wielded for political as well as financial motivations.
