Cyberattacks On Critical Infrastructure Facilities Mainly Sporadic - Kaspersky Lab

Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure Facilities Mainly Sporadic - Kaspersky Lab

Hackers have not found schemes allowing monetization of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure facilities, that is why such attacks remain mainly sporadic, Vladimir Dashchenko, the senior security researcher at the Kaspersky Lab IT company, told Sputnik on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th December, 2018) Hackers have not found schemes allowing monetization of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure facilities, that is why such attacks remain mainly sporadic, Vladimir Dashchenko, the senior security researcher at the Kaspersky Lab IT company, told Sputnik on Wednesday.

In late November, a recently-launched cable car service in Moscow was stopped after a cyberattack on its computers. Two days later, the cable car resumed its operation in a regular mode.

"In most cases attempted infection of computers of organizations' technological infrastructure is sporadic. With some minor exceptions, fortunately, cybercriminals have not found secure schemes of monetization of attacks on industrial information systems," Dashchenko noted.

He added that some illegal platforms were selling software allowing remote access to various computers including those belonging to industrial information systems but pointed out that most cases of infection are linked to start-up and adjustment works carried out with insufficient attention toward cybersecurity.