At least 3 US grain distributors have been infected with ransomware in recent weeks, raising concerns that hackers have found an easy target in a vital part of the US food supply chain.
All three known victims are midwestern grain cooperatives that buy grain from farmers, and then process, store, and resell it for uses like livestock feed and fuel. The attacks, where organized cybercriminals lock up an organization’s computers and demand a ransom for a program to unlock it, has slowed the distributors’ operations, hampering their ability to quickly process grain as it comes in.
Like many industries, grain production has heavily digitized operations that were previously done by hand. Hackers who deploy ransomware against them, locking up their computers and demanding payment, may not be able to stop the distributors entirely, but they can severely slow them down. While grain is a key component to the US food supply chain, its market is large enough that the country won’t see a noticeable effect from three distributors seeing slowed production, Hurbugh said.
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