![]() ![]() ![]() Voccola named other major IT providers that have suffered breaches, including Microsoft, and then tried to pin the blame on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, which are the preferred method of ransom payment for hackers. Doesn't make it ok, it just means it's the way the world we live in is today,' said Voccola. In his video address on Tuesday, Kaseya's CEO spoke out in defense of the company, saying 'even the best defenses get scored on.' 'In a different geopolitical situation, it may be government actors who attack us in this way in order to shut down society and create chaos,' he said.Įven at that scale, the problem is significant, with some 1,000 companies down and unable to do business, costing them money for every hour that the attack drags on. 'They have been hit in various degrees,' Visma Esscom chief executive Fabian Mogren told TT.ĭefence Minister Peter Hultqvist told Swedish Television the attack was 'very dangerous' and showed business and state agencies need to better prepare. State railways services and a pharmacy chain were also impacted by the attack. The Swedish news agency TT said Kaseya technology was used by the Swedish company Visma Esscom, which manages servers and devices for a number of Swedish businesses. 'We have been troubleshooting and restoring all night, but have communicated that we will need to keep the stores closed today,' Coop spokesperson Therese Knapp told Swedish Television. The Swedish Coop grocery store chain closed all its 800 stores on Saturday after the ransomware attack on Kaseya left it unable to operate its cash registers.Īccording to Coop, one of Sweden's biggest grocery chains, a tool used to remotely update its checkout tills was affected by the attack, meaning payments could not be taken. Those customers primarily provide IT services to other companies, and about 800 to 1,500 local and small businesses were compromised, Kaseya said. Kaseya said on Tuesday that approximately 50 of its customers had been breached. The group bragged that it had infected one million companies through the supply-chain attack, but cyber security experts consider this to be a gross exaggeration. The REvil hacker gang, a notorious group thought to be based in Russia or Eastern Europe, demanded a ransom of $70 million to release the decryption key that would unlock all the affected systems. ![]() The unprecedented attack unfolded over the Independence Day holiday weekend, affecting an estimated 1,500 businesses. 'We have been advised by our outside experts that customers who experienced ransomware and receive communication from the hackers should not click on any links - they may be weaponized,' Kaseya warned. Until it can redeploy its cloud-based services, Kaseya told customers to keep their systems shut down until it assures them that it is safe. ![]()
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