Security News > 2024 > January > Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities
Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting provider Tietoevry has suffered a ransomware attack impacting cloud hosting customers in one of its data centers in Sweden, with the attack reportedly conducted by the Akira ransomware gang.
Tietoevry confirmed today that the ransomware attack occurred Friday night into Saturday morning and has impacted only one of their data centers in Sweden.
"Tietoevry immediately isolated the affected platform, and the ransomware attack has not affected other parts of the company's infrastructure."
Tietoevry previously suffered a ransomware attack in 2021 that forced them to disconnect clients' services.
BleepingComputer has learned that the ransomware attack encrypted the company's virtualization and management servers used to host the websites or applications for a wide range of businesses in Sweden.
BleepingComputer has been told that the Akira ransomware operation is behind the attack on Tietoevry, coming soon after the Finnish government warned about their ongoing attacks against companies in the country.
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