Kansas MSP shuts down cloud services to fend off cyberattack

Kansas MSP shuts down cloud services to fend off cyberattack


A US managed service provider NetStandard suffered a cyberattack causing the company to shut down its MyAppsAnywhere cloud services, consisting of hosted Dynamics GP, Exchange, Sharepoint, and CRM services.


According to an email sent to MyAppsAnywhere customers shared on Reddit, the company detected signs of a cyberattack on Tuesday morning and quickly shut down cloud services to prevent the attack's spread.



"As of approximately 11:30 AM CDT July 26, NetStandard identified signs of a cybersecurity attack within the MyAppsAnywhere environment. Our team of engineers has been engaged on an active incident bridge ever since working to isolate the threat and minimize impact.


MyAppsAnywhere services, which include Hosted GP, Hosted CRM, Hosted Exchange, and Hosted Sharepoint, will be offline until further notice.


No other services from NetStandard have been impacted at this time." - NetStandard.



The company says that they have engaged their insurance provider to help identify the source of the attack and bring systems back online.


While the company says that only the MyAppsAnywhere services are affected, the attack appears to have had a broader impact, with the company's main site shut down as well.



NetStandard website shut down

The company has been hosting hourly Zoom calls to update customers about the outages, with BleepingComputer told that the company is now engaged with a third-party cybersecurity firm provided by their insurance carrier.


As NetStandard is sharing no further details, it is unclear what type of attack has occurred. However, security researchers believe this is likely a ransomware attack, as we commonly see with cyberattacks like the one on ..

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