
Kiberataka at the world's largest producer of meat products was most likely produced from the territory of Russia, a representative of the White House said on Tuesday.
The JBS concern was forced to stop the production of meat on nine meat processing plants on Tuesday, which supply about a quarter of the total beef consumed by the Americans to the American market. The cause of the production was “organized cyber attacks”, which affected the JBS computer systems in the United States and Australia. It can lead to "delay in transactions with clients and suppliers," the company said. According to the press, the company became an object of attack using the so-called carrier program, with which cybercriminals block computers and return access to them after receiving the redemption.
News: Hacking Group Behind Cybrattack Against JBS, Largest Meat Produce Globally? A Russia-line Cyber Gang that gos by revil or sodinokibi, Sources tell Me and @williamturton . Attack Shut Down Plants that Supply 1/4 of US Beef; Company Says "Majority" Will BE Up Tomorrow.
- Jennifer Jacobs (@jenniferjjacobs) June 2, 2021
If the production stop is delayed, then this can lead to a shortage of meat and an increase in prices for it, experts say. On Tuesday evening, JBS announced that it will resume production on the environment on the vast majority of "its" its plants and does not spare resources to neutralize cyberosis.
According to the White House, the United States provided the Russian authorities with information about this attack and emphasized that "responsible states do not give refuge on criminals on their territory."
Only three weeks ago, the Colonial Pipeline pipeline was the object of cyber attack, as a result of which gasoline supplies to the eastern states of the United States were interrupted for several days and huge queues arose in several states at benzo -reference stations. The FBI entrusted the guilty for attacks on hackers based in Russia.
