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What we re seeing here with this hack is really the combination of two things that happened before, but rarely together. one is a supply chain compromise, whereby hackers gain access to one victim and then use that to then get a follow on access to many, many other victims. the other is ransomware, where a company s data is held hostage unless they pay cryptocurrency. but again, both of these things are increasingly common, but this is one of the most expansive hacks that combines both techniques together, and that is why people are calling this the biggest ransomware attack of all time, although it is still a bit early to quantify the impact. yeah, ijust wonder what you make of this job lot approach, saying, give us $70 million and we ll clear everybody? i mean, these are all completely separate businesses? it s fascinating and we haven t seen that before. some people theorise it s actually just too many victims for the ransomware gang to process. keep in mind these ransomware gangs ....
Sweden s co op supermarket, which has had to close some 500 outlets that s more than half its stores because tills and self service checkouts had stopped working. reevil has tailored its ransom demands to the size of each respective company, but on sunday said it would settle the lot for $70 million if someone were prepared to pay it. earlier i spoke to jon bateman, a former intelligence analyst for the us government. what we re seeing here with this hack is really the combination of two things that have happened before, but rarely together. one is a supply chain compromise, whereby hackers gain access to one victim and then use that to then get a follow on access to many, many other victims. the other is ransomware, where a company s data is held hostage unless they pay cryptocurrency. but again, both of these things are increasingly common, but this is one of the most expansive hacks that combines both techniques together, and that is why people are calling this the biggest ranso ....
In england where coronavirus cases are rising rapidly the prime minister confirms plans to scrap most of the remaining restrictions in two weeks. a russian based hacking group known as revil has compromised the computer systems of at least 1,000 businesses worldwide by targeting an american it provider, that writes and updates their software. one of those affected is sweden s coop supermarket, which has had to close some 500 outlets that s more than half its stores because tills and self service checkouts had stopped working. well, revil has tailored its ransom demands to the size of each respective company, but on sunday said it would settle the lot for $70 million if someone were prepared to pay it. earlier i spoke tojon bateman, a former intelligence analyst for the us government. what we re seeing here with this hack is really the combination of two things that have happened before, but rarely together. one is a supply chain compromise, whereby hackers gain access to one vi ....