Global meat giant JBS was the victim of a ransomware cyberattack yesterday. According to the White House, they are hidden
Russian criminal groups behind the cyber attack. JBS is the largest meat supplier in the world with over 150 factories in 15 countries and 150,000 employees worldwide.
Deputy Speaker of the Presidency, Karine Jean-Pierre, announced that the cyber offensive would come from a Russian-based criminal organization. A ransom would be demanded in exchange for restoring the computer system. Jean-Pierre, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One bound for Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the president’s official visit Joe Biden, he assured that the United States has contacted the Russian government and that the FBI is also investigating the matter.
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JBS is an American food processing company wholly owned by JBS SA, a Brazilian holding company that is the world‘s largest supplier of beef and pork. The attack on the food industry comes a month after the cyber assault on the US Colonial Pipeline, which allegedly paid $ 4 million to the hackers, also of Russian origin, from whom it was attacked. This was told by billionaire John Catsimatidis, New York mayoral candidate for the Republican Party in 2013, who told “Fox News” that he had heard of the payment of the ransom from his own sources.
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The meat producer expects most of its American plants to be back in operation today. “Significant progress” has been made in resolving the impact of the cyberattack on business, Jbs explains highlighting how its “systems are coming back online and we are not sparing any resources to combat this threat. We have cybersecurity plans to address this. kind of problems and we are implementing them. “
McDonald’s is among the customers of JBS. It supplies over a quarter of US beef and a fifth of its pork.
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