Shutdown of the major food retailer followed Friday s cyberattack on US tech provider (Representational)
Stockholm:
One of the largest ransomware attacks in history spread worldwide on Saturday, forcing the Swedish Coop grocery store chain to close all 800 of its stores because it could not operate its cash registers.
The shutdown of the major food retailer followed Friday s unusually sophisticated attack on U.S. tech provider Kaseya. The ransomware gang known as REvil is suspected of hijacking Kaseya s desktop management tool VSA and pushing a malicious update that infect tech management providers serving thousands of business.
Huntress Labs, one of the first to sound the alarm of the wave of infections at the providers clients, said Saturday that thousands of small companies might have been hit.