Coffee Beyers from the Belgian town of Puurs-Sint-Amands has fallen victim to a cyber attack. Hackers managed to break into the company’s computer systems on Thursday.
Cybercriminals are clearly targeting Belgian beverage producers this week. During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, brewery Duvel Moortgat found traces of a break-in on its servers. On Thursday, Koffie Beyers’ computer systems appeared to have been attacked. So reports the Gazet van Antwerpen.
Attack not yet claimed
The coffee roaster itself declined to comment on the events. The Belgian newspaper did speak with the spokesman for the police zone Rivierenland, Dirk Van de Sande. The local computer crime unit of this police zone arrived on the scene to investigate the cyber attack. This is done in cooperation with the federal computer crime unit.
The investigation should clarify the extent and type of the cyber attack. For example, no details have yet been given as to whether it is a ransomware attack and thus demands a ransom. Nor is it clear who is behind the attack.
More clarity on many of these questions may already follow when the criminals behind the cyber attack claim them. That happened earlier this week with the ransomware attack on Duvel Moortgat. The pro-Russian hacker group Stormous Group turned out to be behind the attack there. It remains to be seen if they are also behind the attack on Koffie Beyers.
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