Manufacturing faces a wave of advanced email attacks

New data from Abnormal Security shows that between September 2023 and September 2024, phishing, business email compromise, and vendor email compromise attacks on manufacturers increased significantly. The number of monthly attacks phishing attacks has grown nearly 83 percent between September 2023 and September 2024. Business email compromise attacks are up 56 percent too. Manufacturing companies typically rely on a complex network of vendors, suppliers, and service providers which creates broad attack surfaces with lots of different entry points available to exploit. In addition manufacturers store a tempting amount of financial data and other sensitive information that criminals can sell across… [Continue Reading]