Exploit: Ransomware
Boyce Technologies: Medical Equipment Manufacturer
Risk to Small Business: 1.407 = Extreme Essential medical equipment producer Boyce Technologies was attacked with DoppelPaymer ransomware. The company produces about 300 low-cost ventilators per day using human and robotic labor. Microsoft noted that this type of ransomware uses “brute force” against a target company’s systems management server. It has extensively targeted the healthcare sector since the start of the COVID-19 crisis.
Individual Risk: No personal or financial information was reported as compromised.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Ransomware attacks have grown more sophisticated and more dangerous in 2020, and corporate-level espionage that impacts production has become more prevalent – meaning that companies have to be more cautious about closing security loopholes.
Risk Levels:
1 - 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 - 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 - 3 = Moderate Risk
*The risk score is calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.
