![]() In June, they were believed to be behind the attack on JBS, the largest meat supplier in the world, which led to some of the JBS operations in North America and Australia being shut down. REvil, derived from “Ransomware” and “Evil”, has previously been linked to a number of such instances. The group of hackers has been dubbed REvilor Sodinokibi by experts and is believed to be Russia- based. However, in a large number of similar cases, the victims do not generally publicly divulge that they were the target of such an attack, or whether they have paid the ransom. ![]() A Swedish grocery chain, a New Zealand School, a German IT company and two Dutch companies are a few of the known victims. The extent of damages is yet to be known, but the estimated number of businesses affected ranges from 1000-2000, spanning at least 17 countries. Taking advantage of the lightly staffed company due to Fourth of July celebrations in the United States, the hackers bypassed the company’s security, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability. ![]() Kaseya sells its software to thousands of IT and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), who in turn, serve a number of clients. On 4 July, they demanded-through the dark web- $70 million in cryptocurrency in exchange for the return of the stolen data. Miami-based information technology firm Kaseya was the target of “the largest ever ransomware attack” last weekend, when hackers exploited a bug in the IT Management software of the firm in order to steal a large amount of data on a number of clients using the Kaseya software. ![]()
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