On 2 July 2021, it became known that the REvil ransomware gang perpetrated a large attack against Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their clients around the world. The far-reaching attack affected firms across 22 countries, including South Africa, the UK, Canada, Argentina, Mexico and Spain, amongst others. In this latest attack, REVil infected a provider of IT Management Software for MSP, affecting multiple companies across the world. Using its Threat Intelligence Service, Kaspersky says that more than 5000 attack attempts in 22 countries, with the most affected being Italy (45.2% registered attack attempts), the USA (25.91%), Colombia (14.83%), Germany (3,21%) and Mexico (2.21%). “At this time, our evidence shows that more than 70 managed service providers were impacted, resulting in more than 350 further impacted organizations,” said Ross McKerchar, VP and CISO at Sophos.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 06, 2021 08:26 UTC