Blue Yonder Ransomware Attack Disrupts Grocery Store Supply Chain (bleepingcomputer.com) 11
Blue Yonder, a Panasonic subsidiary specializing in AI-driven supply chain solutions, experienced a recent ransomware attack that impacted many of its customers. "Among its 3,000 customers are high-profile organizations like DHL, Renault, Bayer, Morrisons, Nestle, 3M, Tesco, Starbucks, Ace Hardware, Procter & Gamble, Sainsbury, and 7-Eleven," reports BleepingComputer. From the report: On Friday, the company warned that it was experiencing disruptions to its managed services hosting environment due to a ransomware incident that occurred the day before, on November 21. "On November 21, 2024, Blue Yonder experienced disruptions to its managed services hosted environment, which was determined to be the result of a ransomware incident," reads the announcement. "Since learning of the incident, the Blue Yonder team has been working diligently together with external cybersecurity firms to make progress in their recovery process. We have implemented several defensive and forensic protocols."
Blue Yonder claims it has detected no suspicious activity in its public cloud environment and is still processing multiple recovery strategies. [...] As expected, this has impacted clients directly, as a spokesperson for UK grocery store chain Morrisons has confirmed to the media they have reverted to a slower backup process. Sainsbury told CNN that it had contingency plans in place to overcome the disruption. A Saturday update informed customers that the restoration of the impacted services continued, but no specific timelines for complete restoration could be shared yet. Another update published on Sunday reiterated the same, urging clients to monitor the customer update page on Blue Yonder's website over the coming days.
Blue Yonder claims it has detected no suspicious activity in its public cloud environment and is still processing multiple recovery strategies. [...] As expected, this has impacted clients directly, as a spokesperson for UK grocery store chain Morrisons has confirmed to the media they have reverted to a slower backup process. Sainsbury told CNN that it had contingency plans in place to overcome the disruption. A Saturday update informed customers that the restoration of the impacted services continued, but no specific timelines for complete restoration could be shared yet. Another update published on Sunday reiterated the same, urging clients to monitor the customer update page on Blue Yonder's website over the coming days.
Gross negligence (Score:4, Informative)
At this time, there is nothing else something like this can be called...
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Pretty much. If you need to protect something and you fail to do so and get hit, you are not a victim. You are a perpetrator.
"with our external cybersecurity firms" (Score:1)
Blue yonder are still around? (Score:2)
They used to be an ISP here in the UK back in the 2000s. Is this the same company or did Panasonic just buy the name?
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Blue Yonder was a brand name of Telewest which got taken over by NTL, and later Virgin Media.
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MICROS~1 strikes again .. (Score:2)
AI-driven snakeoil
Southern California Grocery chain (Score:2)
I work for one of the major grocery stores in southern California and our "AI" order writing systems aren't available to us right now. I was quite surprised to learn that we used a 3rd party subscription for ordering our products for us at the store level.
Needless to say, we have fallen back to how we use to do it. This is quite amusing since we have a lot of people now in charge that have NEVER written an order without the AI. I just told my store director, "Aren't you lucky to have an old guy running your