More than half of major malware attack’s victims are industrial targets

> Now, Kaspersky Labs reports that while the finance sector was hit hardest, more than 50% of the remaining targets fell into the categories of manufacturing or oil and gas.

> “This supports the theory that this malware campaign was not designed as a ransomware attack for financial gain,” Kaspersky Labs wrote in a blog analysis. “Instead, it appears it was designed as a wiper pretending to be ransomware.”

Or maybe it just supports the theory that OS installs on industrial systems are too often not kept up to date?