Security News > 2021 > February > Finnish IT services giant TietoEVRY discloses ransomware attack
Finnish IT services giant TietoEVRY has suffered a ransomware attack that forced them to disconnect clients' services.
TietoEVRY is a Finnish software development and IT services company that employs 24,000 people throughout 80 countries.
On Monday, TietoEVRY experienced technical issues for 25 customers in the retail, manufacturing, and service-related industries, which was later learned to be caused by a ransomware attack.
After learning of the attack, TietoEVRY disconnected the affected infrastructure and services to prevent the ransomware's further spread. "Due to the ransomware the affected infrastructure and services were disconnected. Together with the affected customers and our partners, we are working to enable recovery of the operations soonest."
"TietoEVRY takes the situation extremely seriously and does upmost to solve it and recover the impacted services soonest possible. We have activated an extended team with the necessary capacity and competence and are working hard to solve the situation", says Christian Pedersen, Managing Partner in TietoEVRY Norway.
While attacks against IT services companies don't always affect clients, as we saw with Tyler Technologies and Cognizant, there have been successful REvil and GandCrab ransomware MSP attacks that also encrypted managed customers.
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