Datacentre company Equinix investigating ransomware attack

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A sequence of interior programs at cloud and datacentre company Equinix were plagued by a ransomware attack

Alex Scroxton

Alex Scroxton,
Security Editor

Printed: 10 Sep 2020 12: 30

Cloud and datacentre companies and products company Equinix is investigating a ransomware cyber attack that has left an undisclosed sequence of its interior programs offline, but has moved to reassure its possibilities that the incident is now not affecting its possibilities or carrier ranges.

On the time of writing, fundamental components of the incident were skinny on the bottom, and there modified into no indication of what strain of ransomware has been extinct or precisely what programs were affected.

In a brief assertion posted to its web pages on the evening of 9 September 2020, Equinix stated its teams took “instantaneous and decisive” action to contend with the incident, including notifying regulation enforcement.

“Our datacentres and our carrier offerings, including managed companies and products, dwell fully operational, and the incident has now not affected our potential to enhance our possibilities,” it stated.

“As most possibilities characteristic their possess instruments within Equinix datacentres, this incident has had no affect on their operations or the guidelines on their instruments at Equinix.

“The safety of the guidelines in our programs is continually a top priority and we intend to settle on all fundamental actions, as appropriate, according to the outcomes of our investigation,” stated Equinix.

As other carrier services such CyrusOne and Cognizant have learned to their mark, tech corporations might maybe additionally also be specifically at risk of attempts by cyber criminals to breach their programs on memoir of they recurrently preserve unheard of portions of their possibilities’ most sensitive files. If accessed by malicious actors by lateral coast, this can delivery up a pathway to future assaults.

With 2019 gross sales drawing near near $6bn, Equinix operates around 200 datacentres globally and helps hundreds of possibilities including many of the enviornment’s ideal corporations, so a worthy broader cyber attack will seemingly be devastating for its operations.

It is crucial to point to that at this stage that given the company’s disclosure states handiest interior programs are impacted in this incident, there might be now not a indication that any files belonging to Equinix’s possibilities has been compromised. Nonetheless, investigating the likelihood will almost surely be a key allotment of its forensic probe.

Final month, the firm came in for criticism after a UPS failure took out its LD8 IBX datacentre in London’s Docklands. Dwelling to 1 among 11 components of presence (PoPs) for 2 of the London Web Trade (LINX) peering local-condominium networks (LANs), the disruption introduced on outages for web carrier services (ISPs), telcos, and web pages web web hosting outfits, many of which took to social media to whinge about an absence of response from Equinix.

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