Items tagged with supply chain attack

by Nathan Ord - Sun, Jul 04, 2021

Massive Kaseya Ransomware Attack On Businesses May Be Much Worse Than Previously Reported

Before the holiday weekend got underway, the REvil hacking group kicked off a massive supply chain attack involving remote management software company Kaseya. Based out of Florida, the company only reports that 40 of its remote monitoring tool VSA on-premises customers have been affected by this. However, some of these 40 could be managed service providers who in turn serve hundreds of small businesses, which bloats the number of affected companies upwards of 1,000. This morning, Kaseya provided an update on its progress, explaining that it is working on a plan to restore software-as-a-service server farms while all on-premises VSA servers should remain offline until further notice. Furthermore,... Read more...