The Brazil-based company shut down many of its U.S. facilities earlier this week due to a ransomware attack the FBI linked to a Russian-speaking criminal gang.
JBS has reopened all of its meat processing facilities worldwide and expects to make up for lost production within a week, the company said Thursday, a quick recovery after a ransomware attack blamed on a Russian hackers forced the company to shutter its U.S. plants.the hackers failed to access its “core systems” or encrypted backup servers, limiting the damage from the weekend cyberattack.
JBS said it lost less than one day’s worth of output by pausing production earlier this week at many of its U.S. plants, whichThe company expects to recover from this slowdown in output by the end of next week.that cattle and hog slaughtering numbers have already recovered from earlier in the week, so the agency doesn’t expect the cyberattack to leave a lasting mark on food prices.
a well-known Russian-speaking collective called REvil is responsible for the hack, making it the latest in a string of recent cyberattacks blamed on either Russian government-linked entities or criminals believed to be operating in Russia.
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