Forty-seven organizations, most of which are in the U.S., were purportedly compromised in double-extortion attacks by the Clop ransomware operation, reports Cybernews.
Allegedly impacted by the intrusions were U.S. multinational IT services and consulting firm DXC Technology and Chicago Public Schools, which is the U.S.'s third-largest school district, as well as major order management and fulfillment company Datapak Services Corporation, leading specialty food services distributor Diaz Foods, and pharmaceutical serialization solutions provider Covectra, among others, which Russia-linked Clop noted to have disregarded its ransom notices.
Such a development comes after Clop — which conducted the widespread MOVEit and Fortra GoAnywhere software intrusions following its temporary disruption by Ukrainian law enforcement in 2021 — admitted having compromised 63 organizations, including CPS, Nissin Foods, SDI Technologies, and Western Alliance Bank, in attacks targeted at vulnerable instances of Cleo managed file transfer platforms Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom.
