Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit. Ransomware criminals infiltrate networks and sow malware that cripples them by scrambling all their data. Most ransomware victims don’t publicly report attacks or disclose if they’ve paid ransoms. AdvertisementIt was not the first ransomware attack to leverage managed-services providers. AdvertisementKaseya says the attack only affected “on-premise” customers, organizations running their own data centers, as opposed to its cloud-based services that run software for customers.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 05, 2021 03:11 UTC