Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown

Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations. "The Company is working diligently to restore the affected systems," the manufacturer …

[sitta_europea]

"Leading global automotive companies trust Data I/O's systems to correctly program engine instrument clusters, control units, and braking systems..."

Seems like the trust was misplaced.

[An_Old_Dog]

Not Secret-Secrets

"Top industrial controls and internet-of-things manufacturers use Data I/O's solutions to embed firmware and secrets into their products to ensure they are secured and boot-up during manufacturing."

Securely embedding encryption secrets in hardware has failed multiple times in the past. So why are companies still trying to do this?

[samsung427]

If there were no bitcoin there would be no ransomware, suspend bitcoin until it's not a criminal tool

[Craig 2]

How, exactly, would you go about that?

[katrinab]

Stop people from converting it into real money.

[jvf]

bottom line strikes again

...hired cybersecurity experts to support its recovery process...I don't get why these companies don't already have "cybersecurity experts" on staff...Oh yeah-they also have bean counters on staff.

[GNU Enjoyer]

Gambling that it was windows ransomware

That would make what occurred not really newsworthy outside of a meta article.

After all, if a business uses windows, it's not a question of if the business get hit by ransomware, but when.