REvil hackers demand ransom from Kaseya $70 million in BTC – Bits Media

Another attack by hackers REvil paralyzed networks at least 200 US companies last week. The amount of the ransom for the decoding of data is about $70 million in BTC.

As reports ABC News with reference to the Cybersecurity researcher, Whose company was engaged response to the incident, The Revil Hacques group attacked Kaseya software developer and used the capabilities of the network to spread the Monk virus through the cloud.

According to another publication, As a result of the attack, more 1 Million devices. Revil requires a ransom $70 million in BTC in exchange for a decoder for infected devices.

"On Friday, we started an attack on the supplier of external management services", - stated in an article on the Happy Blog Darkn blog. "More than a million systems were infected".

John Hammond (John Hammond) Huntress Labs noted from cybersecurity company, that Kaseya serves enterprises of various sizes around the world.

“Ultimately, this attack can affect the business of any size or scale. This is a colossal and destructive attack on the supply chain ", - said Hammond.

After it became known about the attack, Kaseya published an appeal on her website, in which she stated, that only the "small number of customers" was affected by the attack.

Recall, that recently one of the world's largest manufacturers JBS Holdings paid $11 million in BTC for hackers REvil, attacking the company's information system, which led to malfunctions.