Hundreds of US companies hit in 'colossal' ransomware attack

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REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind fresh attack on at least 200 US firms, experts say

Such cyberattacks typically infiltrate widely used software and spread malware as it updates automatically.

The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs. Brett Callow, a ransomware expert at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, said he was unaware of any previous ransomware supply-chain attack on this scale. There have been others, but they were fairly minor, he said.He was referring to a Russian cyber-espionage hacking campaign discovered in December that spread by infecting network management software to infiltrate US federal agencies and scores of corporations.

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