Zakaj je kibernetska varnost leta 2022 glavna skrb za živilska podjetja
Imagine showing up for work at a food processing plant and finding out that you and all the other staff preparing to start the shift have been locked outside by a group of hackers. While this sounds like the dystopian fare of the show "Black Mirror," ta natančen scenarijse je zgodilo lanskega oktobra v tovarni jogurta Schreiber Foods v Richland Center, WI.
Čeprav ta tveganja niso nova, je kibernetska varnost lani po vrsti digitalnih napadov na ameriška podjetja postala glavna tema v industriji hrane in pijače. Mesni predelovalec JBS je po svojem poslovanju v Severni Ameriki izplačal 11 milijonov odkupnine in je bil maja 2021 zaprt zaradi vdora. Zvezni preiskovalni urad (FBI)opazitiseptembra, ki je prehrambna in kmetijska podjetja opozorila, da kibernetski kriminalci izvajajo napade z izsiljevalsko programsko opremo na podjetja v sektorju.
"As the sector moves to adopt more smart technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) processes the attack surface increases," the FBI warned. "Larger businesses are targeted based on their perceived ability to pay higher ransom demands, while smaller entities may be seen as soft targets, particularly those in the earlier stages of digitizing their processes."
Na začetku leta 2022 bodo ta vprašanja verjetno ostala v središču pozornosti upravljavcev obratov za predelavo hrane in pijače. 40 odstotkov vodilnih delavcev v industriji potrošniških izdelkovnedavno anketiran s strani Deloittepravijo, da njihova podjetja načrtujejo znatne naložbe za izboljšanje zasebnosti podatkov potrošnikov in kibernetske varnosti v letu 2022. Še 45 odstotkov vodilnih delavcev je navedlo, da bodo letos na teh področjih vložili zmerne naložbe. Da bi zagotovili vpogled v to, kako se industrija odziva na te stalne grožnje,Trdne snovi v prahupoudarja več večjih kibernetskih incidentov, ki so leta 2021 prizadeli podjetja s hrano in pijačo.
Molson Coors
Beverage manufacturer Molson Coors faced a "cybersecurity incident" in March 2021 that caused a "systems outage," according to dokumentvloženo pri ameriški komisiji za vrednostne papirje in borzo (SEC).
"We engaged leading forensic information technology firms and legal counsel to assist our investigation into the incident and we restored our systems after working to get the systems back up as quickly as possible," the company wrote in the filing. "Despite these actions, we experienced some delays and disruptions to our business, including brewery operations, production, and shipments. This incident caused us to not produce or ship as much as we would have in the first quarter of 2021."
Dokument navaja, da je Molson Coors porabil 2 milijona za svetovalce in strokovnjake ter obnovitev podatkov, saj se je odzval na napad.
Ameriško pekarsko podjetje
An unidentified "US bakery company" suffered an ransomware attack last July that interrupted its operations for one week as the firm could not access its server, files, or applications, the FBI detailed in its notice on cyberthreats in the food and agriculture space.
The agency said the hack was the result of "a result of Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware which was deployed through software used by an IT support managed service provider (MSP)."
O tem, kako je bil incident rešen, ni bilo na voljo nobenih informacij. Kasneje v letu,Ministrstvo za pravosodje ZDA je dva ukrajinska državljana obtožilo izvajanja napadov z odkupovalno programsko opremo Sodinokibi/REvilo podjetjih in vladnih subjektih v Teksasu leta 2019. Uradnikom je uspelo izterjati 6,1 milijona, povezanih z domnevnimi izplačili odkupnine.
Schreiber Foods
A "cyber event" temporarily halted operations at all of Schreiber Foods' dairy processing plants and warehouses last October.
"We have a specialized response team that immediately jumped into action and began to resolve the matter," Andrew Tobisch, director of communications for the Green Bay, WI-based firm, povedalABC News podružnica WBAY. Napad je zaustavil sisteme, ki jih uporablja Schreiber Foods za upravljanje svojih proizvodnih zmogljivosti in skladišč.
Hekerji so domnevno zahtevali 2,5 milijona odkupnineiz podjetja,Kmet v državi Wisconsin reported. The incident stopped production, shipments, and milk deliveries at its facilities for five days, a company spokesperson said to the publication. Bloomberg noted in a report that the attack on Schreiber Foods' operations prispeval tudi k pomanjkanju kremnega sira po vsej državiproti koncu leta 2021.