Ransomware Intelligence / Sectors / Manufacturing
Sector
Ransomware in Manufacturing
Discrete and process manufacturers, automotive and industrial suppliers, food and beverage producers.
- 46claims, 7 days
- 153claims, 30 days
- 535claims, 90 days
- 2026-10-15most recent claim
Leak-site listings are claims made by criminals, not confirmed incidents. Sector is assigned from the public listing with an automated classifier and a confidence score; 14% of claims in the last 30 days are not yet classified. If a classification looks wrong, tell us.
Why manufacturing
Manufacturers are a favourite target because downtime is immediately expensive and visible. A stopped line, a frozen ERP or MES, or an unreachable file share turns into missed shipments the same day, which is exactly the pressure a ransomware crew wants when it names a price. Plants also carry a long tail of older Windows hosts, vendor remote-access tools and flat networks between IT and OT, so one phished credential or one unpatched edge device often reaches the whole site.
The counts on this page are claims posted to leak sites, grouped by the sector we assign from the listing. They understate the real picture: many manufacturers pay or recover quietly and never appear on a leak site, and public companies disclose material incidents in SEC filings that we will add to this page as a separate, self-reported series.
Activity, last 26 weeks
New leak-site claims per week against manufacturing organisations.
Most active groups, last 90 days
- the gentlemen 78
- qilin 63
- akira 32
- clop 25
- inc ransom 22
- storm 21
- safepay 17
- krybit 15
- lockbit5 12
- dragonforce 11
Countries, last 90 days
- United States 164
- Unknown 76
- Italy 26
- Germany 23
- India 19
- France 17
- Taiwan 16
- Canada 14
- Spain 14
- Japan 13
- Brazil 12
- United Kingdom 11
- South Korea 10
- Thailand 9
- Australia 8
What to do this week
Three things that move the needle for a plant with a small IT team, in the order we would do them:
- Patch or isolate what ransomware crews are exploiting right now. The list below is CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog filtered to entries with known ransomware use, newest first. Edge devices (VPNs, firewalls, file-transfer appliances) and remote-access tools are the usual entry points.
- Find the file shares that would stop production if encrypted and check who can write to them from which hosts. Plant-wide encryption often spreads over SMB from a single compromised machine, frequently one with no endpoint agent at all (see our remote encryption briefing).
- Test a restore, not a backup. Pick the ERP or MES database and the engineering file share, restore them to a spare host, and time it.
RansomSnare adds a focused ransomware-prevention layer alongside existing security and recovery investments: it identifies file-encryption activity without relying on malware signatures to identify a known ransomware family, and in configured Protect mode it can terminate an untrusted process when it identifies file-encryption activity.
| Added | CVE | Vendor / product | Vulnerability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | CVE-2026-59310 | Broadcom VMware vCenter | Broadcom VMware vCenter Path Traversal Vulnerability |
| 2026-08-05 | CVE-2026-63077 | JetBrains TeamCity | JetBrains TeamCity Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability |
| 2026-07-29 | CVE-2026-20316 | Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) | Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password Vulnerability |
| 2026-07-14 | CVE-2026-15410 | SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances | SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Code Injection Vulnerability |
| 2026-07-14 | CVE-2026-15409 | SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances | SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability |
| 2026-07-01 | CVE-2026-45659 | Microsoft SharePoint Server | Microsoft SharePoint Server Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability |
| 2026-06-25 | CVE-2026-12569 | PTC Windchill and FlexPLM | PTC Windchill and FlexPLM Improper Input Validation Vulnerability |
| 2026-06-12 | CVE-2026-35273 | Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools | Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability |
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Data sources
- Source: CISA KEVupdated 2 hours ago
- Opening demands are read from leaked ransomware negotiation chats collected by Ransomchats (MIT licence), using an OpenAI language model. These chats are not a representative sample.updated 2 hours ago
- Source: RansomLookupdated 2 hours ago
- Sector, country and region labels are inferred by SecuritySnares from the published organisation name using an OpenAI language model; treat them as estimates.updated 2 hours ago
Leak-site listings reflect claims by threat actors and are not independently verified. Victims are never named on this site unless they have disclosed the incident themselves. Read the methodology.