The uptick began in the fourth quarter of 2024 and continued into 2025, with the increases largely attributed to Clop’s exploitation of a popular file sharing service.

Jonathan Braley, director of cyber information sharing organization Food and Ag-ISAC, spoke at the RSA Conference on Thursday and warned of not only the increase in ransomware incidents but the continued lack of visibility into the full scope of the problem.

“A lot of it never gets reported, so a ransomware attack happens and we never get the full details,” he told Recorded Future News on the sidelines of the conference. “I wish companies would be more open in talking about it and sharing ‘Here's what they use, here's how we fixed it,’ so the rest of us can prevent that.”

The uptick began in the fourth quarter of 2024 and continued into 2025, with the increases largely attributed to Clop’s exploitation of a popular file sharing service. But Braley noted that even when they took out the attacks attributed to Clop, groups like RansomHub and Akira were still continuing to attack the food industry relentlessly.

The Food and Ag-ISAC obtained its numbers through a combination of open-source sites, dark web monitoring, member input and information sharing between National Council of ISAC members.

The industry saw 31 attacks in January and 35 in February before a dip to 18 attacks in March.

The 84 attacks seen from January to March were more than double the number seen in Q1 2024.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the company plans to seek compensation from Microsoft and CrowdStrike.

During the fall of 2022, a few friends and I took a road trip from Chicago, IL to Washington, DC to attend a cybersecurity conference and (try) to take a break from our usual computer work.

While we were visiting the University of Maryland, we came across a fleet of electric scooters scattered across the campus and couldn't resist poking at the scooter's mobile app. To our surprise, our actions caused the horns and headlights on all of the scooters to turn on and stay on for 15 minutes straight.

When everything eventually settled down, we sent a report over to the scooter manufacturer and became super interested in trying to more ways to make more things honk. We brainstormed for a while, and then realized that nearly every automobile manufactured in the last 5 years had nearly identical functionality. If an attacker were able to find vulnerabilities in the API endpoints that vehicle telematics systems used, they could honk the horn, flash the lights, remotely track, lock/unlock, and start/stop vehicles, completely remotely.