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and logistics organizations sit squarely in the crosshairs. Attackers know that operators moving essential goods are under intense pressure to restore services quickly, making them more likely to pay ransoms just to keep operations running.
Recent incidents highlight the devastating consequences. One example of the truly crippling impact of a ransomware attack for the sector was the case of KNP Logistics Group( KNP), the parent company of the 158-year-old haulage firm Knights of Old, that saw the compromise of one password lead to the loss of approximately 700 jobs. After gaining access by brute-forcing an employee’ s password, ransomware gang Akira were able to infiltrate the KNP network with ease and encrypted critical data and demanded a ransom estimated at £ 5 million. The attack affected key systems, processes and financial information. Despite having cyber insurance and industry-standard IT systems, the company was unable to recover.
Similarly, the breach at Jaguar Land Rover last year, assessed as the most economically damaging cyber incident in UK history at close to £ 2 billion by the Cyber Monitoring Centre, demonstrated how attacks on logistics-adjacent organizations can ripple across entire supply chains.
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