Russian hackers were behind the Jaguar Land Rover attack that cost the British economy two and a half billion dollars
THE SO WHAT
A six-week shutdown at JLR with a £2.5B economic impact underscores that cyber risk is now macroeconomic infrastructure risk, not just IT downtime. Manufacturers and OEMs need board-level attention on OT security, incident response drills, and supplier network hardening, because the blast radius extends far beyond one balance sheet.
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