[d4ggm4sk]

After a swedish blackhat hacker group broke into the cyber system of one of the largest food chain corporations in the country,
all of the corporations 500 physical stores have now been forced to close. The hacker group is pressuring the company for a ransom.

Some 500 Coop supermarket stores in Sweden have been forced to close due to an ongoing "colossal" cyber-attack affecting organisations around the world.

Coop Sweden says it closed more than half of its 800 stores on Friday after point-of-sale tills and self-service checkouts stopped working.

The supermarket was not itself targeted by hackers - but is one of a growing number of organisations affected by an attack on a large software supplier the company uses indirectly.

Cyber researchers say about 200 businesses have been hit by this "colossal" ransomware attack, which had mainly affected the US.

Cyber-security firm Huntress Labs said the hack targeted Florida-based IT company Kaseya before spreading through corporate networks that use its software. The firm believes the Russia-linked REvil ransomware gang was responsible.

Kaseya said in a statement on its own website that it was investigating a "potential attack".

scource/read the whole article here: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530

[Dismas]

Sounds like whatever software they use for payment processing is affected. For high value operations, they should offer a bug bounty by default.

[d4ggm4sk]

Sounds like whatever software they use for payment processing is affected. For high value operations, they should offer a bug bounty by default.

Ransomware at its finest.

[Accident Man]

When does an IT attack become an act of war?

[d4ggm4sk]

When does an IT attack become an act of war?

when cruelty and cyber terror becomes a new way of expression.

[mothered]

broke into the cyber system of one of the largest food chain corporations in the country

You'd think that a company on such a large scale, would have backups and Immediately restore operations.

[d4ggm4sk]

broke into the cyber system of one of the largest food chain corporations in the country

You'd think that a company on such a large scale, would have backups and Immediately restore operations.

yeah, its strange. they have kept it locked down for days now. i mean, it also shows how vulnerable a system can be.

[Vivian7]

how sad, get security people!!!