Kaseya
, a software company that provides services to more than
40,000 organizations worldwide
, is investigating a possible massive cyberattack on their systems,
The New York Times
reports Saturday
.
The company urged customers using its systems management platform,
called the VSA
, to immediately shut down their servers to avoid the possibility of being compromised by attackers.
"We are experiencing
a potential attack against the VSA
that has been limited to a small number of local customers only," the company posted on its website, according to the
Post
, referring to organizations that keep their software in their own companies rather than host it with a cloud provider.
"We are in the process of
investigating the root cause of the incident
with the utmost vigilance."
John Hammond
, a researcher at the cybersecurity company
Huntress Labs
, said that at least eight companies that provide security or technological tools for hundreds of other small businesses could have been "compromised" by the
Kaseya
attack
, the New York newspaper added.
He specified that
REvil
, a
Russian cybercriminal
group
that the FBI said was behind the piracy of the world's largest meat processor,
JBS
, which occurred in May, could be responsible for this new attack.
"Kaseya handles companies large and small globally, so ultimately it has the potential to expand to companies of any size or scale," said
Hammond
.
"This is a colossal and devastating attack on the supply chain," he stressed.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency also described the incident in a statement on its website as a "
supply chain
ransomware
attack
."
He urged Kaseya's clients to shut down their servers and said he was investigating.
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