Social engineering becomes strategic threat
Posted: 18th Aug 2025
Growing use of social engineering capabilities by cyber adversaries across OT (operational technology) environments is driving a new class of high-consequence threats that threaten the stability of critical systems. Deception, technical compromise, and human manipulation are being combined in ways that abuse the traditional trust models on which industrial systems rely, leaving asset owners and operators to face new and emerging threats and attacks. While conventional IT breaches typically lead to data loss or financial fraud, a successful social engineering attack across OT installations has the potential to shut down production, interrupt critical services, and even threaten public safety.
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