Ransomware attack in US targeted 1,000 businesses China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-05 10:34 Bottles of French Moet & Chandon champagne are offered at a supermarket of Swiss retail group Coop in Zumikon, Switzerland Dec 13, 2016. [Photo/Agencies]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden－One of the largest ransomware attacks in history potentially targeted 1,000 businesses on Saturday, forcing the Swedish Coop grocery chain to close all 800 of its stores because it could not operate its cash registers.
The shutdown of the major food retailer came after an unusually sophisticated attack on US tech provider Kaseya on Friday. The ransomware gang known as REvil is suspected of hijacking Kaseya s desktop management tool VSA and pushing a malicious update that infected technology management providers serving thousands of businesses.
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People walk under Christmas illuminations at the Rennweg shopping street in Zurich, Switzerland Dec 16, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
Nations including Estonia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States have been praised in a new report for their economic responses to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The World Economic Forum s Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020: How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery says: Countries with advanced digital economies and digital skills, robust social safety nets, and previous experience dealing with epidemics have better managed the impact of the pandemic on their economies and citizens.
The report, which was released on Wednesday, does not include Global Competitiveness Index rankings this year. They were suspended because of the pandemic. But the World Economic Forum does talk in general terms about the nations it believes have best coped in economic terms with the pandemic.