JBS Security Incident

Employees at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, in April last year. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters View image in fullscreen Employees at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, in April last year. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters This article is more than 4 years old US meatpacking plants get back on stream after crippling cyber-attack This article is more than 4 years old Experts warn no one is out of bounds after ransomware attack halts production at JBS, which supplies more than fifth of US beef Meat-processing factories in the US run by the worlds largest company in that field are coming back on stream on Wednesday after a ransomware attack as experts warned all corporate and local government leaders to be on the alert. A cyber-attack on the meat processor JBS had forced it to halt all US operations while it scrambled to restore functionality. The attack, like other recent hacks, is believed to have originated in Russia. JBS, which supplies more than a fifth of all beef in America, said all of its US beef plants were pushed offline on Sunday. The ransomware attack on the Brazilian-headquartered companys networks also disrupted other operations across the US, as well as the companys businesses in other countries, including Australia , but less severely. The White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday the attackers were most likely a criminal organisation based in Russia. The White House is engaging directly with the Russian government on this matter and delivering the message that responsible states do not harbour ransomware criminals, she added. And the former director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs, warned on Wednesday morning that everyone is in play and vulnerable to the kind of international criminal hacking gangs causing havoc with attacks on US local government systems, a major US gas pipeline and now a giant meat processor that supplies millions of American...

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