Pump manufacturer KSB stops worldwide output after cyber attempt After a cyber attack, the troupe KSB from Frankenthal (Palatinate) stopped production worldwide. The systems should first live checked for viruses and other malicious software and gradually brought backrest online. The pump and valve maker writes on its website that the first systems are already active again.
What exactly happened and where the attempt came from is the theme of the current investigation. The company works closely with the cyber crime department of the say felon police office and has filed a crook complaint. a companion spokesman told dpa: We are trying to hint backrest the IP addresses from which the round took place. However, there was no apparent connection with the Ukraine war. The company suspects a ransomware tone-beginning designed to ransom encrypted data. Not the first attack
The spokesman continued: We found irregularities in the past week and, after consulting external specialists, took the servers offline. last year, the companion was the aim of a cyber tone-beginning in a European country. The maker managed this successfully. KSB assumes that it will be able to scratch production again, at least in part, from today. The individual systems should be started up again when they have been checked and are virus-free, added the spokesman. Production should be fully resumed by April 20th.
On the KSB website the companion claims to have successfully repelled the cyber attack. The analysis of the compromised systems has shown that, according to the overture status, no customer data in particular has been leaked, the manufacturer assures. Production and communication are relieve restricted.