Kaseya cyberattack: Hackers want $70 million for decryption

[Klaralven]

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The Miami-based firm Kaseya said a broad array of small businesses — including in financial services, travel and leisure, and public agencies on all continents — were hit in this latest ransomware attack.

In Sweden, the grocery chain Coop said the vast majority of its 800 stores were closed on Sunday for a second day because their cash register software supplier was down. A pharmacy chain, a gas station chain, the state railway and the public broadcaster SVT were also compromised.

In Germany, the news agency dpa reported that an unnamed IT services company believed several thousand of its customers were hit by this ransomware attack. Two big Dutch IT firms, VelzArt and Hoppenbrouwer Techniek, also reported problems.

CEO Fred Voccola of Kaseya said he believes the number of victims is in the low thousands, noting that it was mostly small businesses like "dental practices, architecture firms, plastic surgery centers, libraries, things like that.''

https://www.dw.com/en/kaseya-cyberattack-hackers-want-70-million-for-decryption/a-58158481

[PCIntern]

1. My dental practice was ransomed some years ago

What these idiots didn’t know was that I had multiple daily backups and ran the program as well simultaneously in a machine that had no internet connection. The datasets were stored at the end of each day on a CD RW and after 100 days, I would reuse the disc. And yes, I made sure each disc’s backup would write into my program which was set up on a virtual machine inside the stand alone one. Then I would rewrite it onto the main portion of the hard disk and so each day I had a clean version off-site just in case the worst happened. And I had it on my laptop as well also isolated from the practice (but not the internet). I told these fuckers to get lost, they blew up my files, and I never heard another word. Reported it to authorities, but told them I was ok. Then isolated my office computer for a month then went back to biz as usual.

Fuckers….

[abqtommy]

2. It's time for President Bidens anti-hacking crew to take it to these hackers in a big way. As

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they've done in the past.

[TxGuitar]

3. It's time to cut off the internet to Russia

as much as we can. Or deny financial transactions to and from.