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Under Siege: The Escalating Cyber Threats Targeting the Manufacturing Industry

2026 Manufacturing Threat Intelligence Report

Manufacturing now carries the largest share of eSentire's cases over the past year, at 14.7%, and the fastest year-over-year growth of any industry, up 81.6%, according to eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU). Attackers have moved away from broad malware toward identity-based intrusions, because credential-based access is more persistent and harder to detect. What's at stake: the IP, production data, and OT systems that make downtime on your floor so costly.

That shift shows up most clearly in account compromise, now the number one threat in the sector at 49.5% of all observations. Much of it is driven by Tycoon2FA, a phishing kit built specifically to intercept credentials and session tokens and bypass standard MFA in real time. Meanwhile, ChatGPTStealer, malware disguised as an AI productivity tool, has become the single most-observed named malware family targeting manufacturers, a sign that attackers are exploiting the same AI tools your teams are adopting.

Download TRU's full Manufacturing Threat Intelligence Report to see the complete attack data behind these numbers and the defenses that close these gaps before they cost you production time.

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Manufacturing now carries the largest share of eSentire's cases over the past year, at 14.7%, and the fastest year-over-year growth of any industry, up 81.6%, according to eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU). Attackers have moved away from broad malware toward identity-based intrusions, because credential-based access is more persistent and harder to detect. What's at stake: the IP, production data, and OT systems that make downtime on your floor so costly.

That shift shows up most clearly in account compromise, now the number one threat in the sector at 49.5% of all observations. Much of it is driven by Tycoon2FA, a phishing kit built specifically to intercept credentials and session tokens and bypass standard MFA in real time. Meanwhile, ChatGPTStealer, malware disguised as an AI productivity tool, has become the single most-observed named malware family targeting manufacturers, a sign that attackers are exploiting the same AI tools your teams are adopting.

Download TRU's full Manufacturing Threat Intelligence Report to see the complete attack data behind these numbers and the defenses that close these gaps before they cost you production time.

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