 {"id":33191,"date":"2021-07-06T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moderneuc.com\/?p=33191"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:02:19","slug":"ransomware-kaseya-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/ransomware-kaseya-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Kaseya Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ransomware is rampant these days.&nbsp;&nbsp; The latest in the long list of of attacks is&nbsp; the one on Kaseya, an PC management service provider, and it is notable because the incident not only affects Kaseya&#8217;s IT management customers, but also those companies&#8217; corporate clients that have outsourced IT management to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The attack is reminiscent of the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/solarwinds-the-more-we-learn-the-worse-it-looks\/\" target=\"_blank\">SolarWinds security breach<\/a> which is worrisome as the attackers seem to be targeting management platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It appears that attackers have carried out a supply chain ransomware attack by leveraging a vulnerability in Kaseya&#8217;s VSA software against multiple managed service providers (MSP) &#8212; and their customers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaseya on Tuesday said around 50 of its customers that use the on-premises version of VSA had been directly compromised by the attack \u2014 but it said as many as 1,500 downstream businesses around the world have been compromised.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.kaseya.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/4403440684689-Important-Notice-July-2nd-2021\">Important Notice &#8211; <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.kaseya.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/4403440684689-Important-Notice-July-2nd-2021https:\/\/helpdesk.kaseya.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/4403440684689-Important-Notice-July-2nd-2021\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.kaseya.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/4403440684689-Important-Notice-July-2nd-2021https:\/\/helpdesk.kaseya.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/4403440684689-Important-Notice-July-2nd-2021\" target=\"_blank\">Kaseya Announcement and ongoing log<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/scale-details-massive-kaseya-ransomware-attack-emerge-78664071\">Scale, details of massive Kaseya ransomware attack emerge &#8211; ABC News (go.com)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/kaseya-ransomware-attack-your-questions-answered\/\">Kaseya ransomware attack: Your questions answered | ZDNet<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/kaseya-ransomware-attack-your-questions-answered\/ar-AALV3hG?ocid=uxbndlbing\">Kaseya ransomware attack: Your questions answered (msn.com)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware is rampant these days.&nbsp;&nbsp; The latest in the long list of of attacks is&nbsp; the one on Kaseya, an PC management service provider, and it is notable because the incident not only affects Kaseya&#8217;s IT management customers, but also those companies&#8217; corporate clients that have outsourced IT management to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The attack is reminiscent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[681,441],"tags":[700,742,757],"class_list":["post-33191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moderneuc2","category-tech-talk","tag-cybersecurity","tag-moderneuc1","tag-ransomware"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":681,"label":"ModernEUC"},{"value":441,"label":"Tech Talk"}],"post_tag":[{"value":700,"label":"Cybersecurity"},{"value":742,"label":"ModernEUC"},{"value":757,"label":"ransomware"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ransomware-KaseyaFeaturedImage.png",730,430,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":681,"name":"ModernEUC","slug":"moderneuc2","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":691,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":261,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":681,"category_count":261,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ModernEUC","category_nicename":"moderneuc2","category_parent":0},{"term_id":441,"name":"Tech Talk","slug":"tech-talk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":451,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":671,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":441,"category_count":671,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Talk","category_nicename":"tech-talk","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":700,"name":"Cybersecurity","slug":"cybersecurity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":710,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":29,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":742,"name":"ModernEUC","slug":"moderneuc1","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":752,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":284,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":757,"name":"ransomware","slug":"ransomware","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":767,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518802,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions\/518802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}