Cleanup and damage assessment in progress
Superior Plus, a North American propane distributor, admitted to being attacked by ransomware.
exist A statement Yesterday (December 14), Superior Plus stated that it was recovering from a network vulnerability that caused its system to be infected with an unspecified ransomware on Sunday, December 12.
“Superior temporarily disabled certain computer systems and applications while investigating this incident and is bringing these systems back online,” the Canadian company said.
Propane dealers have summoned cyber security experts to help deal with the incident and assess the impact of the breach. Superior stated that “there is no evidence that the safety or security of any customer or other personal data has been compromised.”
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Superior focuses on the distribution and sale of propane, distillate and related products and services to 780,000 customer locations in the United States and Canada.
It is not clear which ransomware organization or which systems may be affected behind the attack.
Drink it every day An enquiry has been submitted requesting information on these points and the latest information on its clean-up work.
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As multiple sectors of the global economy are affected, ransomware attacks are increasingly becoming a daily incident. As the recent colonial pipeline attack has shown, critical infrastructure companies in the energy sector are far from immune.
Third-party cybersecurity experts warn that unless there is a thorough rethinking, more of the same things are inevitable.
Sam Curry, Chief Security Officer of Cybereason, commented: “The scale of this attack is unclear, and only Superior can provide more details.
“The fact that Superior took certain systems offline indicates that the attacker succeeded. It’s time to do more.
“It’s time to strengthen security measures and implement them correctly-least privilege, flexibility, worst-case planning, and a detection mindset,” Curry added.
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