Cyber war hits meat business

 Fox Business:

Brazil-based JBS, the world's largest meat producer, has shuttered all of its US-based beef plants as of Tuesday while responding to a cyberattack.

The shutdowns impacted all nine beef plants, located in Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wisconsin, Utah, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union, which represents more than 25,000 JBS employees. JBS's US-based pork plants are still operational.

The shuttered plants produce nearly one-quarter of U.S. beef supplies. In total, JBS employs more than 66,000 workers across 84 US-based locations.

The attack raised concerns of a potential meat shortage in the U.S. and several other countries impacted by the situation. It wasn’t immediately clear how the shutdown would affect meat prices.
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JBS USA said it discovered on Sunday that an "organized cybersecurity attack" had impacted some of its computer systems in North America and Australia. The company noted it would "take time" to resolve the cybersecurity breach and warned it "may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers."

UFCW called on the company to pay workers impacted by the plant shutdowns.
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"JBS notified the administration that the ransom demand came from a criminal organization likely 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 harbor ransomware criminals," White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing.

The Russian cybercrime business is booming.  It does not look like the FBI or the intel agencies have a grip on the problem and I doubt the Russians will be much help.