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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 03 2021, @02:45PM (2 children)
The networking protocols are very insecure at the lower layers... They were not designed with hostile environments in mind. We can bandaid on top of this, but the fundamental weaknesses of our network architectures will still be there.
(Score: 2) by Rich26189 on Saturday July 03 2021, @03:20PM (1 child)
I don’t know how these most recent attacked were perpetrated, TFS doesn’t say, but I disagree that the networking layers are the likely attack point. Enterprise level equipment has very robust networking layers, especially the lower ones. I can’t speak about the upper layers, e.g. 7 (yeah, I’m that old) but I have to think they’re not untested.
At this point we’re talking about the 6th Domain of Warfare.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 03 2021, @05:24PM
All that "enterprise level equipment" is only needed due to the horrible design of the basic networking protocols... We segment the networks to stop our machines from blabbing everything they do and know where anyone can hear.