SecurityWeek is reporting that a cyber attack which used spearphishing to gain system access has resulted in substantial damage to a steel plant in Germany.
Control components and entire production machines suffered outages due to the attackers’ actions. The outages prevented the plant from appropriately shutting down a blast furnace, leaving it in an undetermined state. This resulted in significant damage to the plant,
[Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security] noted in its report.
This is yet another powerful demonstration of the impact of deceptive emails.
