Kaseya Ransomware Update 2

Following up to our last Blog Post on this topic.

The total number of Kaseya customers affected remains about the same as our last post.

Kaseya has released the patch as scheduled on July 11th, 2021 at 4pm for their VSA software.

As of July 12th, 2021, Kaseya's VSA servers that they run themselves, are back on-line.

Kaseya Ransomware Strike

As you may have heard in the news over the 4th of July weekend, a very widely used tool by Managed Service Providers, including us, called Kaseya VSA was the focus of a ransomware attack on MSP's clients.

Similar to the recent Solarwinds and NinjaRMM attacks in which tools used by IT professionals are used to target the victims, but fortunately the scale here is much smaller and less impactful.

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The state of ransomware in 2021 so far
Businesses need to deal with ransomware both from outside and within.

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