Food Company Frozen
Sunday is the worst day for a cyberattack to hit—government channels are dark, support is thin, and a company’s operations can grind to a halt with almost no one watching. For one food processing firm in Latvia, that quiet was the beginning of a crisis that would take months, and hundreds of encrypted machines, to unwind.
Printing House Paralyzed
A colleague called to say the computers weren’t working. It seemed like an inconvenience, until the chairman of Jelgavas tipogrāfija pulled into the office and found all printers displaying the same message. By lunchtime, everything was dark: email, accounting, the software running the business itself.