Incidents in country:
3 incidents catalogued
A cyberattack on Britain's biggest carmaker forced JLR to shut down its global IT network and halted vehicle production in the UK, China, Slovakia, India, and Brazil for five weeks — now considered the most economically damaging cyber incident in UK history.
A junior developer at C&M Software — a Central Bank-authorized provider of Pix instant-payment connectivity — was paid roughly R$5,000 to hand over credentials. Attackers used the access to drain approximately R$800 million ($148 million) from reserve accounts at six Brazilian financial institutions in 2.5 hours.
REvil affiliates encrypted the world's largest meat processor, shutting down beef and pork plants across the U.S., Canada, and Australia. JBS paid an $11 million ransom — one of the largest publicly-confirmed ransomware payments at the time.