Security News > 2021 > July > Coop supermarkets closes 500 stores after Kaseya ransomware attack
Swedish supermarket chain Coop has shut down approximately 500 stores after they were affected by an REvil ransomware attack targeting managed service providers through a supply-chain attack.
Last night, the supermarket chain closed its stores after the REvil ransomware gang targeted managed service providers and their customers in a massive supply-chain attack through Kaseya VSA, a remote patch management and monitoring uite.
BBC reporter Joe Tidy further confirmed that Coop had to shut down approximately 500 stored due to the ransomware attack.
"The attack results in the Kaseya software that Visma EssCom and many other service providers use in their deliveries to retailers can be used to spread a ransomware virus to clients and servers in customers' IT environments."
"The most critical consequence is that stores cannot charge their customers when the cash registers are infected. The attack on Kaseya was discovered on Friday night."
The attack on Coop is just the first in what will be a long list of victims from this attack.
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