The disruptive power of ransomware was already on full display last month, thanks to the Colonial Pipeline attack that for days halted fuel distribution from a crucial pipeline on the East Coast of the United States. Now, a different attack over the weekend is threatening the food supply chain—and underscoring, once again, that ransomware is an urgent national and international security issue.
JBS SA is the world's largest meat processing company, with headquarters in Brazil and more than 250,000 employees worldwide. In a statement on Monday, its American subsidiary, JBS USA, said that “it was the target of an organized cybersecurity attack, affecting some of the servers supporting its North American and Australian IT systems.” The company added that its system backups are intact. In response to the attack, JBS USA took impacted systems offline, notified law enforcement, and began working with an outside incident response firm on remediation. JBS facilities in Australia, the US, and Canada have faced disruptions since the attack was first detected on Sunday.
The JBS incident is now rippling out through the meat industry, causing some plants to shut down, workers to be sent home, and livestock to be sent back to farmers after being transported for slaughter. In Australia, the situation is having a particularly noticeable impact on local supply chains, though official ..
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