Krispy Kreme has acknowledged that the December 2024 disruption to its online ordering system resulted from a cyber attack. Krispy Kreme operates four bakeries known as “Doughnut Factories,” 1,521 retail shops, and over 15,000 delivery locations in the United States. It also partnered with McDonald’s to avail its crispy doughnuts to the restaurant chain’s customers across the country. “We’re experiencing certain operational disruptions due to a cybersecurity incident, including with online or
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Who wants to mess with the food supply? Foreign adversaries and crooks, that’s who. The US food and agriculture sector dealt with at least 167 ransomware attacks last year, according to a leading industry group. In its first annual report, the Food and Agriculture-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Food and Ag-ISAC) said the industry was the seventh most targeted sector in the country, behind manufacturing, financial services and others. Thus far in the first quarter of 2024, the secto
Double-Extortion ransomware is a type of cyberattack in which the threat actors exfiltrate a victim’s sensitive data in addition to encrypting it, giving the attacker additional leverage to collect ransom payments. A typical ransomware attack will only encrypt the target’s data. The threat actors behind the Play ransomware are estimated to have impacted approximately 300 entities as of October 2023, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory from Australia and the US. "Play ransomware ac
