JBS

JBS was hacked in May by REvil, one of a number of Russian-speaking hacker gangs, leading to meat plants across the U.S. and Australia shutting down for at least a day.

An epidemic of ransomware attacks has prompted Biden administration officials to deem them a national security threat. But what exactly is “ransomware” and how do these cyberattacks work?

Local farms are getting a boost during the pandemic.

Killam & Bassette Farmstead in South Glastonbury was one of the Connecticut farms that saw an increase in business at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Twenty-twenty was just so unprecedented,” Chris Bassette, the owner of Killam & Bassette Farmstead, said. “We did very well. People tended to come here because they didn’t want to go to the big...

The world’s largest meat processing company has resumed most production after a weekend cyberattack, but experts say the vulnerabilities exposed by this attack and others are far from resolved.

A ransomware attack on the world’s largest meat processing company disrupted production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline. Brazil’s JBS SA, however, said late Tuesday that it had made “significant progress” in dealing with the cyberattack and expected the “vast majority” of its plants to be operating on Wednesday. “Our...

JBS USA says it has been the target of a major cyberattack. The company is part of one of the largest food companies in the world.