Clients of Internet Solutions\u2019 hosting services have told MyBroadband that attackers breached their servers and infected them with ransomware, encrypting their data and demanding money to get the decryption key.<\/p>\n
Other clients said that they noticed other troubling activity prior to IS disclosing the problem, as if there were attackers roaming around inside the network.<\/p>\n
In addition to deploying ransomware, people with servers and virtual servers in Internet Solutions said they detected exploitation toolkits, including remote access trojans, being deployed on machines.<\/p>\n
However, Internet Solutions has denied that it has suffered a data or security breach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe infrastructure layer has not been compromised by malware or remote access trojans, but rather [it is] a matter of irregularities [which were] detected by our internal monitoring systems on certain hosting services,\u201d IS CTO Kervin Pillay told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n
Pillay said that the \u201cirregular activity\u201d they detected is still under investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are unable to comment on behalf of our clients as to whether they have been compromised outside of IS systems control,\u201d Pillay said.<\/p>\n
Internet Solutions recently sent out a notice to its hosting customers to warn them about the breach<\/strong><\/a>, and urged them to change their passwords and take additional steps to secure their servers.<\/p>\n The notice was signed by Pillay and informed clients that Internet Solutions detected \u201cirregular activity\u201d in the following environments:<\/p>\n There was no \u201cirregular activity\u201d in its Cloud Virtual Machine and Ignite Cloud Server environments.<\/p>\n Pillay told clients in the notice that they should change the password for each virtual and physical machines hosted in Internet Solutions\u2019 data centres.<\/p>\n Clients of Internet Solutions\u2019 hosting services have told MyBroadband that attackers breached their servers and infected them with ransomware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":229919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35,20077,54781],"class_list":["post-282069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions-is","tag-kervin-pillay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282233,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282069\/revisions\/282233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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