The “cyber incident” that British multinational retailer Marks & Spencer has been struggling with for over a week is a ransomware attack, multiple sources have asserted. The Telegraph’s sources say ransomware was deployed by a unnamed criminal gang. Bleeping Computer’s says the attackers were members of the Scattered Spider hacking group, and that M&S’s virtual machines on VMware ESXi hosts have been encrypted with the DragonForce encryptor. The effects of the attack The company publicly … More →

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