Victim:

Bridgestone Tire

Attacker/Malware:

LockBit’s LockBit2.0 Ransomware

Industry:

Manufacturing

Estimated Cost:

~$100M-150M in losses, ~30-40 facilities shut down in North/Latin America

Primary Attack Vector:

Likely Spear Phishing or Supply Chain compromise

Prevention Failure:

Weak Credentials, Lack of Segmentation

BlastWave Solution:

Network Cloaking, Passwordless Secure Access, and Segmentation

Kill Chain Analysis:

Disrupting Global Production

Bridgestone, a multinational tire and rubber company, suffered a cyberattack in2022 that disrupted production across its facilities in North and South America.

This incident is part of a trend of surging ransomware attacks against the manufacturing sector (a 61% increase in 2025), where attacks are severe enough toforce operational shutdowns across geographically disparate sites. The suspected initial attack vector for this incident was an IT compromise that caused ashutdown to protect the OT network.

BlastWave Prevention Analysis:

Global Microsegmentation for Distributed OT

Similar to Toyota, the failure was systemic, laterally spread across a distributedmanufacturing enterprise.

BlastWave implements a centrally managed, unified Microsegmentation policy.This ensures that the breach containment strategy is consistent globally.

If an infection occurs in a US plant, the policy ensures that the ransomware payload cannot communicate or pivot to the control systems in the South American plants, confining the operational disruption to a minimal physical area.

Take the Next Step

Reading about past failures is only useful if it changes future outcomes. If attackers can see your OT network, they can target it. If they can target it, compliance, safety, and uptime are already at risk.

BlastWave eliminates reconnaissance, initial access, and lateral movement — without agents, without downtime, and without changing IPs, protocols, or PLCs.

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Bridgestone Tire Facilities Attack (2022)