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It might be days before production resumes after an “organized cybersecurity attack” affected IT systems in North America and Australia
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The world's largest beef supplier has been hit with a ransomware attack, threatening some of the U.S. meat supply.
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The hack came less than four weeks after a similar one by Russian criminals against Colonial Pipeline
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JBS notified the administration that the ransom demand came from a criminal organization, likely based in Russia.
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Ransomware, an extremely lucrative type of cybercrime, is malicious software that lets hackers encrypt a victim's files and demand a ransom to make them functional again.
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about 40 food and beverage companies around the world have had confirmed ransomware attacks since May 2020.
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Colonial's hackers, an established ransomware gang called DarkSide, shut down its website amid international attention from that attack, but not before receiving a $4.4 million payment from Colonial.
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If this goes beyond a week, you start to really worry about these animals building up on farm sites where they just don't have the capacity to hold them