Shutdown of the major food retailer followed Friday s cyberattack on US tech provider (Representational)
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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.
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A U.S. IT provider that was been hit by a major ransomware attack on the eve of a long holiday weekend in the United States is scrambling to help its customers get their systems running again while it works with the U.S. government to determine the extent of the attack.
The Florida-based company said its CEO would be interviewed on U.S. television on July 4 regarding the incident, a sophisticated ransomware attack that cybersecurity experts believe was carried out by Russian criminal hackers.
The gang known as REvil is suspected of hijacking Kaseya s desktop management software and pushing a malicious update that infected tech management providers serving thousands of business.
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Major ransomware attack against US tech provider forces Swedish store closures The Swedish Coop grocery store chain closed all its 800 stores on Saturday after a ransomware attack on an American IT provider left it unable to operate its cash registers.
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04 Jul 2021 12:05AM (Updated:
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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.
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