![]() ![]() Later on July 5, a security researcher Jack Cable reported on Twitter that the attackers had lowered the price and the final amount of ransom at the time of releasing this article was $50 million. From individual end users being attacked, the gang demanded ransoms of varying amounts of up to $5 million. It is the largest single ransomware attack in history ever, as the REvil gang responsible for the crime demanded on its blog, shortly after the attack, a $70 million ransom in Bitcoin from Kaseya for providing a universal decryption key. In terms of end user victims, Germany reports more than 1,000 end users affected, and the Netherlands two major IT companies VelzArt and Hoppenbrouwer Techniek. In Europe, several large end user IT management companies have been attacked. ![]() Īccording to President Joe Biden, large American companies have not been much affected. Īmong those affected were also larger end users such as Coop, one of Sweden’s largest supermarket store chains that had to shut down nearly 800 stores across the country after the attack crippled the cash register software supplier. 1,500 end users were attacked, and according to Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola, they mostly included small end users such as doctors’ surgeries, libraries, IT companies or various construction companies. ![]() For this reason, the end users were also affected by the attack. It is not uncommon that the major attack took place just before the Fourth of July holiday with a shorter workday, as ransomware attacks usually take advantage of the fact that late at night or just before the weekend there is fewer staff monitoring the security of information systems, and moreover, a malicious programme itself needs enough time to encrypt the files.Ĭurrently, we know that about 50 companies in 17 countries around the world have been paralysed they are direct users of Kaseya VSA, whereas many of them deal with the management of end user IT services. On Friday, July 2, in the evening, the world was shaken by a massive ransomware attack targeting a remote server management application called the Kaseya Virtual Server Administrator, used for remote management of end user stations. ![]()
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