Infrastructure Attacks With Physical Consequences Down 25
Dark Reading, Friday, March 27th, 2026
Operational technology (OT) at industrial and critical infrastructure sites seem to have been benefitting from a lull in ransomware, and hackers' relative ignorance of OT systems.
The volume of major operational technology (OT) cyber incidents dropped off in 2025, for the first time in seven years.
Rare is it in cybersecurity that any figure or metric goes down. More often than not, any kind of threat, anywhere, is usually rising. Only occasionally does the cybersecurity industry, ardent law enforcement, or some geopolitical development cut so deeply that some category of cyber threat declines, let alone one so significant as major OT attacks.