Listen to the podcast on BNR news radio where Micha van Geelen of security company NFIR explains.
According to Van Geelen, these are old servers and software that are no longer supported. “It’s really antique software. Why is a tire manufacturer necessarily the target of a hack? A hacker doesn’t look where he’s breaking in, he looks at a weak spot in a system and only then starts looking how interesting his burglary is. A burglar also doesn’t know if there’s jewellery inside, but he looks for it’.