Security News > 2021 > June > First gas, now meat: Latest cybersecurity attack shows criminals are expanding their scope
Russian hacking group REvil is behind the ransomware attack on meat processing company JBS Foods, according to the FBI. The good news from the JBS Foods ransomware attack is that it seems to have followed one of the basic tenets of cybersecurity - make back-ups.
The meat processing company JBS said on Wednesday that its operations had mostly recovered from a ransomware attack and had shut down operations in the United States and Australia earlier this week.
No group has claimed responsibility and JBS has not shared the details of the attack.
"The good news is that their backup systems appear to be unaffected by the attack, which shows that they have followed some industry best practices and have an incident response plan," he said.
"While data breaches five years ago were personally impactful, they had nowhere near the societal impact that a ransomware attack can have now," he said.
"If a company has internet-exposed systems, these vulnerabilities can carry an attack without the need to trick an employee," he said.