Fallout continues from biggest global ransomware attack


A sign reading ‘Temporarily closed - We have an IT-disturbance and our systems are not functioning’ is posted in the window of a shuttered Coop supermarket store in Stockholm on July 3, 2021, during an ongoing ‘colossal’ cyberattack affecting organisations around the world. Most of Sweden’s Coop supermarkets are still closed on July 5, 2021, three days after the cyberattack on US Kaseya. — AFP

BOSTON: The single biggest ransomware attack yet continued to bite on July 5 as more details emerged on how a Russia-linked gang breached the exploited software company. The criminals essentially used a tool that helps protect against malware to spread it globally.

Thousands of organisations – largely firms that remotely manage the IT infrastructure of others – were infected in at least 17 countries in last Friday’s assault. Kaseya, whose product was exploited, said Monday that they include several just returning to work.

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