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A massive cyberattack this Friday paralyzed the networks of at least 200 companies in the United States , as confirmed by the cybersecurity company Huntress Labs.
This was the REvil gang, a major Russian ransomware group that used a software vendor called Kaseya to spread the ransomware through cloud services .
These types of cyberattacks have the ease of infiltrating computer programs and spreading malware as it updates automatically.
The attack was recorded just during the weekend of July 4 where The IT staff of companies is usually scarce, so some experts do not rule out that it is a targeted attack.
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John Hammond of security company Huntress Labs wrote on Twitter that the REvil group is likely / Sodinikibi is the same ransomware provider that the FBI
- linked to the attack on the meat processing company JBS .
REvil is among the ransomware gangs that steal data from targets before activating ransomware, allowing companies to be extorted.
A report from cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks mentions that the average ransom payment to this group was around half a million dollars last year .
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