Meat packaging company JBS confirms that it paid a $ 11 million ransom to hackers who targeted its operations in the US and Australia. David Zalubowski / AP hide caption
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Meat packaging company JBS confirms that it paid a $ 11 million ransom to hackers who targeted its operations in the US and Australia.
David Zalubowski / AP
JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, confirms that it has paid a ransom of $ 11 million to cyber attackers.
JBA USA’s CEO Andre Nogueira called it a “very difficult decision”.
“However, we felt that this decision had to be made in order to avoid potential risks to our customers.”
JBS is based in Brazil, however Last week’s hack targeted servers in the US and Australia.
The FBI says REvil, a Russian-speaking gang, was responsible.
It was one of a series of high-profile ransomware attacks, one of which focused on Colonial Pipeline and resulted in the company stop operating in the southeastern US The word that had stopped spreading led to Drivers panic buying petrol, empty one gas station after the other in large parts of the south and east coast.
Colonial later said it immediately notified the FBI and other agencies of the ransom demand, and also paid a ransom of $ 4.4 million.
Federal law enforcement agencies announced this week that their new task force on ransomware and digital extortion more than half recovered of the money paid by Colonial.
