Security News > 2022 > February > Nothing to scoff at: Crisps and nuts biz KP Snacks smacked in ransomware hack attack
Some of Britain's favourite pub munch could end up in short supply after KP Snacks, makers of nuts and crisps, suffered a ransomware attack.
Kenyon Produce, to give the company its formal name, wrote to small shops around the UK saying it had been infected with ransomware on 28 January, as reported by industry news site Better Retailing.
Bleeping Computer reported they'd seen leak pages showing that the attackers were the WizardSpider ransomware gang, known for unleashing their signature Conti ransomware in a paralysing attack last year on the Republic of Ireland's state-run health service.
The damage caused to a fast-moving consumer goods firm such as KP Snacks by a ransomware attack is likely to be severe.
Ransomware attacks can take weeks or months to fully clean up: if the ransom isn't paid, networks need to be rebuilt from scratch before being populated with data from backups.
Over the last two years ransomware gangs have concentrated on the soft underbelly of the West: medical and pharmaceutical companies.
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