KASEYA RANSOMWARE – IT'S A WAR!

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KASEYA RANSOMWARE – IT’S A WAR!

Ransomware should not be treated as a Cybercrime in every case. The context decides what it is actually meant for. The response of the state even if unstated makes it crystal clear, depending on how the state views a ransomware attack or a series of it or something unleashed globally. Launching an attack at the start of the July holiday can have its own connotation, besides the comfort of time that many of the victims would not even come to know of, until getting back to work on Monday. America is at war, another invisible enemy, the heat can be felt all over. It's like the Pandemic, the virus was not to be seen but the devastation put the country out of gear. The difference is that there is no vaccine for ransomware. The recent ransomware attacks have made organizations bleed. The biggest ransom is the complete loss of trust and credibility of business enterprises and the government.

The Kaseya ransomware attack was close on the heels of a discussion just last month with President Putin who had to stop providing safe haven to REvil and other ransomware in the relentless extortionary attack on businesses on US soil. The present ransomware attack also seems to be of REvil type origin. The US deems it as a National Security threat and so is it. The NSA said that the US President had directed the full resources of the government to investigate the incident. Since Friday, the United States Government has been working across inter-agency to assess the Kaseya ransomware incident and assist in the response. The attackers were able to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in the VSA product to bypass authentication and run arbitrary command execution, it is undoubtedly an extraordinary situation and the President has urged companies to report to the Internet Crime Complaints Center.


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