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Software vendor Kaseya said Monday night that "fewer than 1,500 secondary companies" have been affected by the recent ransomware attack that affected companies around the world.
"To date, we are aware of fewer than 60 Kaseya customers, all of whom were using the local VSA product, who were directly compromised by this attack," Kaseya said.
"While many of these customers provide IT services to many other companies, we understand that the total impact thus far has been on fewer than 1,500 secondary companies. We have not found any evidence that any of our [cloud] customers have seen compromised ".
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Kaseya also said that she met with the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Monday night "to discuss network and systems hardening requirements prior to restoring service to clients [in the cloud]. and local. A set of requirements will be published prior to the restart of service so that our customers have time to implement these countermeasures before returning to service on July 6. "
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The REvil malware affected a wide range of IT management companies and compromised hundreds of their corporate clients late last week.
The cybercriminals gang, believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe or Russia, targeted software provider Kaseya, whose products are widely used by IT management companies, cybersecurity experts said.
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Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola said in an interview with Reuters on Monday that it is difficult to measure the full impact of the attack, but the company believes that between 800 and 1,500 companies worldwide have been affected.
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CNN reported early Monday that ransomware group REvil had demanded a payment of $ 70 million in bitcoin for a decryption tool to restore companies' data.
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In the interview with Reuters, Voccola did not say whether Kaseya will pay the hackers.
"There are no comments on anything to do with negotiating with terrorists in any way," he told Reuters.
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Voccola also told Reuters it was not aware that any major national organization was involved in the attack.
"We are not seeing massive critical infrastructure," he said.
"That is not our business. We are not operating the AT&T network or the Verizon 911 system. None of that."
- Brian Fung contributed to this report
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