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About 200 US businesses have been hit by a "colossal" ransomware attack, according to a cyber-security firm.
Huntress Labs said the hack targeted Florida-based IT company Kaseya before spreading through corporate networks that use its software.
Kaseya said in a statement on its own website that it was investigating a "potential attack".
Huntress Labs said it believed the Russia-linked REvil ransomware gang was responsible.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, a federal agency, said in a statement that it was taking action to address the attack.
The cyber-breach emerged on Friday afternoon as companies across the US were clocking off for the long Independence Day weekend.
The two big things that are keeping cyber-security professionals up at night lately are ransomware attacks and supply chain attacks. This latest incident combines both nightmares into one big Independence Holiday weekend-ruining event for hundreds of US IT teams.
Ransomware is the scourge of the internet. Multiple organised criminal gangs are constantly attempting to gain access to computer networks to hold them hostage. The rate of attack is relentless but it can take a lot of time and effort on the criminals part to successfully hijack one victim's computer system.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday July 03 2021, @02:00PM (4 children)
It's not that simple, and your argument doesn't really work, because everything uses either DNA or RNA. And ribosomes are pretty similar from bacteria to people. Etc.
But it's still basically true. Monocultures encourage the emergence of predators, which have even been known to extinguish the species...or at least the gene-line. This has happened to several lines of banana, though people have kept cultivars alive in labs.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 03 2021, @03:34PM (3 children)
Aren't we presently having the second year of the COVID shitshow for precisely that very reason?
In the prokaryotes' world, the tithe they pay to phages is a more than fair price for the feature of horizontal gene transfer. Even the multicellular eukaryotes time and again use that feature for their evolutionary advantage, despite such events having far smaller chance of going beneficially for them (us). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer [wikipedia.org]
Some unicellular eukaryotes do have some tweaks however (too bothered by viruses in their time of need, to keep holding out for uncertain evolutionary gifts?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_codes [wikipedia.org]
Either way, Windows systems at present do not produce offspring so the argument does not hold for them. :)
Dissimilar enough that entire classes of antibiotics are exploiting that difference.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 03 2021, @11:42PM (2 children)
Good God, spare us of the contrary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 04 2021, @02:32AM (1 child)
Clippy is illegitimate?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday July 04 2021, @09:56AM
Clippy is not Bob and they are dead anyhow, may both rest in pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford