Ransomware attack targets global IT services provider Inetum

On Sunday 19^th of December 2021, Inetum, French IT services company with a revenue of almost $2 billion suffered a ransomware attack that affected some of their operations in France although the ransomware did not spread to larger infrastructures used by the customers.

“None of the main infrastructures, communication, collaboration tools or delivery operations for Inetum clients has been affected,” – Inetum.

Inetum’s crisis unit acted quickly to the incident by isolating all servers on the affected network and terminated client VPN connections. Inetum also has notified authorities about the attack and a third party has also been called in for incident response services. An initial investigation has determined the ransomware strain used in the attack. It is believed that the ransomware used in the incident was the BlackCat ransomware, also known as ALPHV and Noberus.