The global shipping and mailing services company Pitney Bowes revealed that the recent partial outage was caused by the Ryuk ransomware.
The global shipping and mailing services company Pitney Bowes recently suffered a partial outage of its service caused by a ransomware attack. Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of
The company now published an update on the attack, it confirmed that the root cause of the disruptions of its services was “the Ryuk virus malware attack.”
“This is an update to the status of Pitney Bowes recovery from the Ryuk virus malware attack on some of our systems that disrupted client access to some of our services.” reads the update shared by the company. “Upon discovery of the attack, w
The mailing system products were paralyzed by the attack, the company confirmed that
- Clients are unable to refill postage or upload transactions on their mailing machine
SendPro Online in the UK and Canada- Hosted instances of SendSuite Live, SendSuite Express, SendSuite Tracking (SST)
- Accounting solutions such as Inview, Business Manager and Account List Management
- Your Account and the Pitney Bowes Supplies web store cannot be accessed. This in turn impacts clients subscribed to
AutoInk and our Supplies App
The company announced that currently it
The Ryuk ransomware was involved in a long string of attacks targeting cities, hospitals, and organizations worldwide.
In September New Bedford city was infected with Ryuk ransomware, but did not pay $5.3M ransom. In April, systems at Stuart City were infected by the same Ryuk ransomware, in early March, Jackson County, Georgia, was hit by the same ransomware that paralyzed the government activity until officials decided to pay a $400,000 ransom to decrypt the files.
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(SecurityAffairs – Ryuk Ransomware, Pitney Bowes)
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