It seems like every other day cybercriminals go after a new industry and disrupt people’s lives. This time, it’s a ransomware attack that took out the servers of the world’s largest meat producer JBS, halting production at a number of facilities in the U.S. this week. And with each new attack, cybersecurity experts offer words of caution: It could get a lot worse, and it probably will.
So far, at least in the instance of last month’s Colonial Pipeline hack, cybercriminals have focused on stealing cash through ransomware. But sophisticated attacks from nation states or politically motivated hackers could cripple infrastructure thanks to lax cybersecurity protections.
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