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Cybersecurity professionals have seen a surge in cyberattacks in the past year, and many blamed the trend on more employees working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published on Thursday by VMware. VMware's 2021 Global Security Insights Report is based on a survey of more than 3,500 CISOs, CTOs and CIOs conducted in December 2020.
The world's largest meat processing company has resumed most production after a weekend cyberattack, but experts say the vulnerabilities exposed by this attack and others are far from resolved. "Our systems are coming back online and we are not sparing any resources to fight this threat," Andre Nogueira, CEO of JBS USA, said in a statement.
The good news is there are straightforward ways of minimizing the impact before an attacker even so much as looks in the direction of your organization. You can gain insight into the most common threats in your industry and understand the way attackers might think and act during an incident from both past war stories and threat intelligence sources such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The world's largest meat distributor shut down some operations in both the United States and Australia over the Memorial Day weekend after a cyberattack on its IT systems that could have a significant effect on the food supply chain if not resolved quickly. Though JBS did not disclose which of its U.S. operations were affected, in Australia JBS shut down operations across the states of Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania, according to JBS Australia CEO Brent Eastwood told Beef Central.
The Swedish Public Health Agency is currently investigating several attempts to hack into SmiNet, a database that stores reports of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 cases. SmiNet was shut down on Thursday, after the agency identified several attempts to gain unauthorized access to the database, but it was restored by Friday night.
JBS USA, the US subsidiary of the world's largest meat processing company, said Monday that some operations were shut down following a cyberattack that affected its North American and Australian IT network. Headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, JBS USA is a global food company wholly owned by Brazil-based JBS S.A., the largest meat processing firm in the world.
JBS Foods, a leading food company and the largest meat producer globally, had to shut down production at multiple sites worldwide following a cyberattack. The incident impacted multiple JBS production facilities worldwide over the weekend, including those from the United States, Australia, and Canada.
Over the past year, an Iran-linked threat actor named Agrius has been observed launching destructive attacks on Israeli targets, under the disguise of ransomware attacks, according to endpoint security company SentinelOne. Likely state-sponsored, the threat group initially engaged in cyberespionage attacks, but then attempted to extort victims, claiming to have exfiltrated and encrypted data.
A series of high-profile cyberattacks on targets in the West have highlighted the vulnerability of companies and institutions, making the issue a higher public priority but with no easy solution. The attack saw its computer systems encrypted, putting its operations offline and causing fuel shortages for American drivers.
Today, Cato Networks has released an analysis of the network flows across its platform during Q1, 2021, seeking anomalous behavior in approximately 200 billion traffic flows during Q1, 2021. "Blocking network traffic to and from 'the usual suspects' may not necessarily make your organization more secure," comments Etay Maor, senior director of security strategy at Cato Networks.