{"id":7833,"date":"2021-07-05T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:55:42","slug":"kaseya-was-fixing-zero-day-when-revil-ransomware-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/kaseya-was-fixing-zero-day-when-revil-ransomware-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaseya Was Fixing Zero-Day When REvil Ransomware Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The zero-day vulnerability that was used to crack the Kaseya VSA servers on site was being fixed, just as the REvil ransomware gang used it for a massive attack on Friday, which has since spread all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The zero-day Kaseya vulnerability was discovered by DIVD researcher Wietse Boonstra and identified as CVE-2021-30116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Access to the Kaseya VSA servers has been removed as quickly as possible to prevent the further spread of the vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new update of Kaseya recommends that all VSA on-premise servers remain offline until a patch is released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaseya is also in the process of putting its SaaS server farms online and developing a plan for hosted VSA servers.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/kaseya-was-fixing-zero-day-just-as-revil-ransomware-sprung-their-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> orignal story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The zero-day vulnerability that was used to crack the Kaseya VSA servers on site was being fixed, just as the REvil ransomware gang used it for a massive attack on Friday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7872,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}