Explained | Kaseya and the massive cyberattack affecting 1,500 businesses globally
The Hindu
The Florida-based company’s impact can be understood from the fact that more than 40,000 organisations around the world use one or all of Kaseya’s IT tools, making it central to software supply chain of hundreds of businesses around the world.
On July 2, Kaseya, a Miami-based software provider to over 40,000 organisations, announced that it was investigating a potential cyberattack. A day later, the IT solutions developer for managed service providers (MSPs) and enterprise clients confirmed that it had been hit by a ‘sophisticated cyberattack’. (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click to subscribe for free.) According to CEO Fred Voccola, between 800 and 1,500 businesses around the world have been affected by the ransomware attack.
On December 23, the newly elected office bearers of the Anna Nagar Towers Club, led by its president ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, who is a former MLA, met with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and conveyed their greetings. According to a press release, besides, ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, the Anna Nagar Towers Club delegation that met Stalin at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK Party headquarters, included vice-president R. Sivakumar, secretary R. Muralibabu, joint secretary D. Manojkumar, treasurer K. Jayachandran and executive committee members N. D. Avinash, K. Kumar, N. R. Madhurakavi, K. Mohan, U. Niranjan, S. Parthasarathi, K. Rajasekar, S. Rajasekar, M. S. Ramesh, R. Satheesh, N. C. Venkatesan and K. Yuvaraj. Karthik Mohan, deputy secretary of DMK’s Information Technology Wing, was present on the occasion.












