US President Joe Biden said he was not sure that Russia was behind the recent hacker attack, which also affected the international IT company Kaseya, Bloomberg reports.
“We are not sure if they are Russians. Initially it was assumed that this is not the Russian government, but we are not sure yet, ”Biden said.
The day before, on July 3, Bloomberg reported a ransomware hacker attack on a number of IT companies whose clients are small and medium-sized businesses. According to updated data from Huntress Labs, the victims of the hacker attack were at least 20 IT service providers, including the international company Kaseya, as well as at least 1,000 enterprises that are their clients.
Several victims of ransomware have already contacted them, BreachQuest Bloomberg, a company specializing in hacking protection, told the agency. The ransom amount started at $ 45,000.
According to Bloomberg, the REvil group could be behind the attack. According to the FBI, it also organized an attack at the end of May on the branches of the world's largest meat producer JBS. Then, in the United States, all of the company's factories were suspended, and it also had to completely stop slaughtering in Australia and cancel shifts at a Canadian plant, which processes up to 4.2 thousand head of livestock per day. As a result, JBS announced that it paid a ransom in the amount of $ 11 million.
