Businesses have been urged to stop using a tool supplied by California-founded software company Kaseya, after it was manipulated to carry out a large number of ransomware attacks. But cyber-security agency Cert NZ said it had instead been used to deploy ransomware. MARK TAYLOR / STUFF Waikato DHB chief executive Kevin Snee talks about a data dump which has seen private staff and patient information appear on the dark web. But Cert NZ advised all Kaseya VSA users “to shut down their VSA instances until further notice”. The New Zealand government last week came under pressure from National to step up spending on cybersecurity in the wake of a crippling ransomware attack on the DHB in May.

Source: Stuff July 04, 2021 02:37 UTC