Kaseya Hack (July 2021)

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Important information about the Kaseya hack

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Background: The REvil group successfully hacked the Kaseya VSA product. The compromised VSA software then took over the MSPs using the product and installed malware on end-customer computers. Shortly after the attack, Kaseya administrators lost privileged access to the VSA servers, and customer devices were subsequently encrypted with the REvil ransomware.* 

The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) was also contacted by an affected IT service provider from Germany. Its customers had been impacted, a BSI spokesperson said. This involved several thousand computers at various companies.

The attack via Kaseya's software management represents a new level of ransomware attack. With this attack, the REvil gang not only reached over 1,000 companies at once, but also affected companies that hadn't actually done anything wrong.*** Previously, large supply chain attacks were primarily aimed at stealing information.

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First and foremost: our SMS RMM software was NOT affected!

Active monitoring and investigation of all our products and systems shows no signs of this ransomware variant. The security of our partners is very important to us, and we are vigilant in our monitoring and investigations, providing updates promptly as needed.

This allowed us to assist our SYNAXON Managed Services Monitoring partners with a corresponding script to identify the VSA agent and check whether there are still any malicious certificates and files on the system.

This script has been made available in the dashboard and is listed as “BETA Testing: Kaseya Vulnerability”.

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Protecting against such complex supply chain attacks is very difficult. However, manufacturers and users can implement best practices to protect against initial intrusion, including:

SYNAXON Managed Services already take care of some of these important tasks for you.

However, this attack has clearly demonstrated one thing: you can't do without a functioning backup! Therefore, we strongly urge all SMS users to ensure a functioning backup for their end customers and themselves!

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On July 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM, the SYNAXON Academy is hosting a special webinar on the topic. Supply chain attacks – what can be done?

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For further questions, please feel free to contact us! 

 

Current information from Kaseya can be found at: https://www.kaseya.com/potential-attack-on-kaseya-vsa/ (English language)

Sources:

*https://www.borncity.com/blog/2021/07/03/revil-ransomware-befall-bei-200-firmen-ber-kaseya-vsa-und-management-service-provider-msp/

**https://www.it-business.de/hacker-wollen-70-millionen-dollar-loesegeld-a-1035958/?cmp=nl-43&uuid=7fa93aeb0d5bcf5e3a7512ed4dcb5420 

***https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Kaseya-VSA-Wie-die-Lieferketten-Angriffe-abliefen-und-was-sie-fuer-uns-bedeuten-6129656.html

 

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