A cyberattack on software maker Kaseya, whose software was used by the large Swedish supermarket chain Coop Sweden, as well as many small and medium-sized businesses around the world, could affect thousands of computers in Germany. This assessment was expressed on Sunday, July 4, by experts from the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI).
“One IT services company has already reported that it was attacked,” a BSI spokesman told Reuters, noting that the aforementioned company had thousands of clients, which could eventually also be affected by hacker attacks.
BSI expects that on Monday, July 5, they may begin to receive messages from companies affected by the cyber attack, which did not notice the breach of their systems until the beginning of the work week. The fact is that only enterprises operating in critical industries for the country’s infrastructure, such as power supply, are legally required to report hacker attacks against them.
Earlier it was reported that as a result of this hacker attack on the Kaseya company, 200 firms in the United States were affected.
Suspected: hacker group REvil
At the same time, no cases of such a large-scale damage to any company as the Coop supermarket chain in Sweden, forced to temporarily close all 800 branches, have not yet been recorded in Germany, the BSI said.
The Kaseya VSA software breach, which could have affected thousands of businesses around the world, was reported on the evening of July 2. The next day, July 3, Bloomberg reported with reference to computer security company Huntress Labs Inc. that a group from Russia called REvil could be behind the global hacker attack.
At the moment, experts believe that the attackers were only interested in the ransom for restoring the systems, and not the personal data of the clients of the affected companies.
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