ABB on May 7, 2023, the Swiss multinational company, leading electrification and automation technology provider, suffered a cyber attack that reportedly impacted its business operations.
ABB cut off VPN connections with its clients as soon as the security flaw was detected to stop the threat from spreading.
ABB acknowledged that the hackers gained access to certain of its network and used human-operated ransomware to take specific data.
The number of servers and endpoints that the attackers could access was constrained.
The company has fully recovered from the security breach, all factories are operating.
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/146752/cyber-crime/abb-ransomware-attack.html
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"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "05/2023",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"