Stop the line: Cyber threats facing manufacturing

The report assesses elevated cyber risk to the manufacturing sector, identifying ransomware as the most frequent and damaging threat observed (with manufacturing the most-targeted sector in recent ransomware leak site activity). It highlights credential theft and account takeover as common initial access vectors, the role of initial access brokers, and nation-state interest in intellectual property and supply-chain compromise, and concludes with practical resilience recommendations (restricting internet-facing remote services, improving identity and access management, and prioritized vulnerability management).