[HN Gopher] Ransomware attack affecting Tietoevry's services to ...
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       Ransomware attack affecting Tietoevry's services to some customers
       in Sweden
        
       Author : zyberzero
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-01-20 12:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tietoevry.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tietoevry.com)
        
       | jruohonen wrote:
       | "One of Tietoevry's several _datacenters_ in Sweden has become
       | partially subject to a ransomware attack. "
       | 
       | Sounds bad.
        
         | zyberzero wrote:
         | Yeah. From what I know at least Filmstaden (Swedens biggest
         | cinema chain, owned by AMC) can't sell a thing right now. No
         | tickets can be sold at all, and no snacks can be sold at the
         | cinema either :(
         | 
         | Rusta is another affected store chain. I guess there is a lot
         | more affected customers unknown to the public right now
        
           | gerikson wrote:
           | Granngarden is another.
        
             | zyberzero wrote:
             | Yeah, and parts of Vellinge Kommun as well. Apparently a
             | lot of their day-to-day-systems are affected [0].
             | 
             | Also, a HR system called primula is affected. It is mostly
             | used by universities from what I can gather.
             | 
             | [0] = https://www.dn.se/sverige/it-attacken-paverkar-
             | myndigheter-o... (Swedish, one of the biggest newspaper in
             | Sweden)
        
               | qxfys wrote:
               | lol yeah. Primula is affected. So no one can apply for
               | vacation, business travel, reimbursement, or even
               | parental leave.
               | 
               | Time to work work work work..
        
         | tgsovlerkhgsel wrote:
         | It only affecting one datacenter is _good_ news, IMO:
         | 
         | It makes it likely that the attackers didn't breach Tietoevry
         | itself, or that they had only very limited access (unless
         | Tietoevry has incredibly good separation between business
         | units, so that only a small subset is affected).
         | 
         | That increases the chance that the customers have to deal with
         | an outage, not an outage followed by ransom demands and their
         | customer data being leaked.
        
       | rightbyte wrote:
       | Tietoevry is one of these firms MBAs use to dismantle the it-
       | department and outsorce it to.
       | 
       | I've always thought these centralized point of failures are a bad
       | idea.
        
         | thejackgoode wrote:
         | With extra sauce of numerous mergers and rebrandings. So, every
         | 3 to 7 years, this phoenix of shit is reborn
        
       | filleokus wrote:
       | Seen people speculate online that everything in AS25473 and
       | AS34950 is affected, and that unpatched Ivanti Endpoint Manager
       | Mobile could be the entry point
       | https://www.shodan.io/host/193.8.33.135
       | 
       | Not sure how credible that is? I don't understand how that could
       | take down the whole data center.
        
       | cxcorp wrote:
       | BleepingComputer's coverage[1] has this tidbit:
       | 
       | > BleepingComputer has been told that the Akira ransomware
       | operation is behind the attack on Tietoevry, coming soon after
       | the Finnish government warned about their ongoing attacks against
       | companies in the country.
       | 
       | > "The incidents were particularly related to weakly secured
       | Cisco VPN implementations or their unpatched vulnerabilities.
       | Recovery is usually hard," warned the Finnish NCSC.
       | 
       | I wonder what the entrypoint was back in 2021 when they were
       | attacked around the same time?
       | 
       | [1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tietoevry-
       | ran...
        
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