FRANK BAJAK
AP Technology Writer
The company whose software was exploited in the biggest ransomware attack on record said Tuesday that so far it appears fewer than 1,500 businesses were compromised. But cybersecurity experts suspect the estimate is low and note that victims are still being identified.
A couple examples of the impact the attack has had in the at least 17 countries affected: the weekend shuttering most of the 800 supermarkets in the Swedish Coop chain because the malware crippled their cash registers, and the reported knocking offline o f more than 100 New Zealand kindergartens.
Miami-based Kaseya said that it believes only about 800 to 1,500 of the estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 mostly small business end-users of its software were affected. They are customers of companies that use Kaseya s virtual system administrator, or VSA, product to fully manage their IT infrastructure.
By FRANK BAJAK and ZEKE MILLER Updated: July 06, 2021 07:01 PM Created: July 06, 2021 07:34 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Tuesday that damage to U.S. businesses in the biggest ransomware attack on record appears minimal, though information remained incomplete. The company whose software was exploited said fewer than 1,500 businesses worldwide appeared compromised but cybersecurity experts caution that the incident isn t over.
Also Tuesday, a security researcher who chatted online with representatives of the Russia-linked REvil gang behind the attack said they claimed to have stolen data from hundreds of companies, but offered no evidence.
Answering a reporter s question at a vaccine-related White House event, Biden said his national security team had updated him Tuesday morning on the attack, which exploited a powerful remote-management tool run by Miami-based software company Kaseya in what is known as a supply-chain attack.
Aún no está claro número de víctimas de ataque de ransomware
Aún no está claro número de víctimas de ataque de ransomware
Durante el fin de semana, el malware provocó el cierre de la mayoría de los 800 supermercados de la cadena sueca Coop y la desconexión de más de 100 jardines de infantes de Nueva Zelanda
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software fue utilizado para el ataque con ransomware más grande del que se tenga registro informó que hasta ahora parece que menos de 1.500 empresas se vieron afectadas. Sin embargo, los expertos en ciberseguridad sospechan que la cantidad estimada es baja, y señalaron que todavía se siguen identificando víctimas.
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President Joe Biden said Tuesday that damage to U.S. businesses in the biggest ransomware attack on record appears minimal, though information remained incomplete. The company whose software was exploited said fewer than 1,500 businesses worldwide appeared compromised but cybersecurity experts caution that the incident isn’t over.
Also Tuesday, a security researcher who chatted online with representatives of the Russia-linked REvil gang behind the attack said they claimed to have stolen data from hundreds of companies, but offered no evidence.
Answering a reporter’s question at a vaccine-related White House event, Biden said his national security team had updated him Tuesday morning on the attack, which exploited a powerful remote-management tool run by Miami-based software company Kaseya in what is known as a supply-chain attack.