At least 1,000 businesses are said to have been affected by the massive supply-chain ransomware attack that triggered an infection chain compromising thousands of businesses on Friday. The notorious Russia-linked REvil cybercrime gang is best known for extorting $11 million from meat-processor JBS early last month. The group is now asking for a record $70 million ransom payment to publish a universal decryptor that can unlock all systems that have been crippled by file-encrypting ransomware. The development has prompted the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to issue an advisory.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/revil-used-0-day-in-kaseya-ransomware.html