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Cybersecurity experts called for companies including Kaseya—the remote computer
management software provider whose customers were exposed in a major ransomware
attack this past weekend—to stop encouraging users to take security shortcuts.

In the attack, hackers affiliated with the REvil group, known for demanding $11
million from meatpacker JBS in an earlier attack, infected thousands of victims’
computers around the world through remote managers of local business IT systems,
demanding a total ransom of $70 million.

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