11/25/2021- 8:18 p.m.
Hackers target US biomanufacturing facilities with new malware strain
A new malware named ‘Tardigrade’ is being utilized to actively conduct cyberattacks against several US-based biomanufacturing facilities, according to a threat advisory report.
The Bioeconomy Information Sharing and Analysis Center warned biomanufacturing sites and their partners to be alert and assume they will be targeted by the malware.
Tardigrade is primarily used for espionage, although the malware also causes other issues on the systems it infects including network outages. The identification of the hacking group behind the attacks remains unknown.
