{"id":229952,"date":"2026-04-01T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/eight-in-10-uk-manufacturers-hit-by-cyber-incident-in-a-year\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:45:26","slug":"eight-in-10-uk-manufacturers-hit-by-cyber-incident-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/eight-in-10-uk-manufacturers-hit-by-cyber-incident-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight in 10 UK Manufacturers Hit by Cyber Incident in a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/eight-10-uk-manufacturers-hit\/\">Eight in 10 UK Manufacturers Hit by Cyber Incident in a Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/eight-10-uk-manufacturers-hit\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/eight-10-uk-manufacturers-hit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-01 05:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The impact of cyber-attacks on UK manufacturers extended well beyond Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) last year, with 78% of businesses\u00a0suffering a serious incident, according to new data from ESET.<\/p>\n<p>The security vendor polled 500 senior decision-makers responsible for IT, OT, operations, risk or security in UK manufacturing organizations, to understand more about threats to the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all (95%) respondents admitted that an\u00a0attack had a direct impact on their business, and most (53%) suffered financial loss as a result. Supply chain disruption (44%) and missed customer or supplier commitments (39%) were also common, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>Of the organizations that experienced a full or partial shutdown as a result of an intrusion, most (77%) suffered between 1-7 days downtime, while 56% reported 1-3 days of outages.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on manufacturing breaches: JLR Hack UK&#8217;s Costliest Ever, Hitting Economy with \u00a31.9bn Loss<\/p>\n<p>Despite mounting threats, a fifth of respondents claimed to have limited or no visibility into cyber risk that could impact production.<\/p>\n<p>AI-enabled attacks were cited by more respondents (46%) as a threat to production than any other type, including phishing (42%), ransomware (40%) and unauthorized system access (38%).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Boards Must Take Control<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Although the cautionary tale of JLR is still fresh in the memory of senior leaders, most do not appear to be engaged with managing cyber risk.<\/p>\n<p>Only 22% of respondents said they assign accountability to board or executive leadership, with ownership for cyber staying within IT for most (55%). That typically betrays low levels of maturity in an organization\u2019s approach to cyber \u2013 as does reactive security.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth (21%) of responding organizations admitted they still favor reactive over preventative measures, which can lead to knee-jerk investment in point solutions and a culture of firefighting problems rather than seeking strategic solutions.<\/p>\n<p>ESET UK country manager, Matt Knell, argued that the JLR&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/eight-10-uk-manufacturers-hit\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight in 10 UK Manufacturers Hit by Cyber Incident in a Year https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/eight-10-uk-manufacturers-hit\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/0f04558a-9d7e-45d9-8546-1846141d82e8.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-229952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229954,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229952\/revisions\/229954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}