New ransomware attack targets key IT vendor
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US cyber officials are tracking a major new ransomware attack by the same group that hit meat supplier JBS Foods.
by Brian Fung, CNN Business
US cyber officials are tracking a major new ransomware attack by the same group that hit meat supplier JBS Foods this spring.
This time, the REvil malware has hit a wide range of IT management companies and compromised hundreds of their corporate clients.
The cybercriminal gang, which is believed to operate out of Eastern Europe or Russia, targeted a key software vendor known as Kaseya, whose products are widely used by IT management companies, cybersecurity experts said.
FireEye CEO: Digital currency enables cybercrime
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US cyber officials are tracking a major new ransomware attack by the same group that hit meat supplier JBS Foods.
by Brian Fung, CNN Business
US cyber officials are tracking a major new ransomware attack by the same group that hit meat supplier JBS Foods this spring.
This time, the REvil malware has hit a wide range of IT management companies and compromised hundreds of their corporate clients.
The cybercriminal gang, which is believed to operate out of Eastern Europe or Russia, targeted a key software vendor known as Kaseya, whose products are widely used by IT management companies, cybersecurity experts said.
The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack
The attack came despite President Joe Biden s threat of retaliation to Russian President Vladimir Putin if they continued
The massive scale of the attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday
John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs said the criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya
Kaseya earlier in the day had said in a press release that the potential attack had been limited to a small number of on-premise customers only
Michigan county sheriff coordinated with Trump advisors to try and seize voting machines
In email messages obtained by
Bridge Michigan through the Freedom of Information Act, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf tried late last year to enlist other county sheriffs in an illegal and unsuccessful bid to “investigate all acts of voter fraud” by seizing and inspecting voting machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems of Denver, Colorado.
Sheriff Dar Leaf [Source: Michigan’s Sherrif Association]
Bridge Michigan said that the “trove of emails” indicates that “Trump had at least some law enforcement support in his bid to overturn the 2020 election won by Democratic President Joe Biden.” Among the top-level Trump contacts involved in the communications from Leaf were a liaison for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and White House attorney Sidney Powell, who was leading bogus legal filings alleging election fraud by Democrats across the country.
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