Warning: Social Engineering is a Growing Threat to the Industrial Sector
KnowBe4, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Social engineering attacks are a growing threat to operational technology (OT) environments, Industrial Cyber reports.
Cyberattacks against these environments can be particularly damaging since they have the potential to cause physical disruptions.
'With the expanding IT/OT footprint, the attack surface is increasingly providing attackers additional opportunities to compromise targets by stealing credentials, impersonating trusted insiders, and moving laterally from one system to another inside the network,' Industrial Cyber says. 'AI-driven phishing, voice cloning, and deepfake-enabled pretexting are lowering the barrier to entry, enabling cyber adversaries to deploy powerful tools that have the potential to erode the reliability of human judgment across critical infrastructure installations.'