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blog-dshr-org-2370		DSHR's Blog: A Modest Proposal About Ransomware			.html	text/html	4449	498	75	On the evening of July 2nd the REvil ransomware gang exploited a 0-day vulnerability to launch a supply chain attack on customers of Kaseya's Virtual System Administrator (VSA) product. By the 6th Alex Marquardt reported that Kaseya says up to 1,500 businesses compromised in massive ransomware attack. Rewind to April, and the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) had privately reported seven security bugs in VSA to Kaseya. In Kaseya was warned about security flaws years ahead of ransomware attack by J., Fingas reports that: Former staff talking to Bloomberg claim they warned executives of "critical" security flaws in Kaseya's products several times between 2017 and 2020, but that the company didn't truly address them. The program would motivate users to keep their systems up-to-date with patches for disclosed vulnerabilities, which would not merely help with ransomware, but also with botnets, data breaches and other forms of malware.	./cache/blog-dshr-org-2370.html	./txt/blog-dshr-org-2370.txt