The Cadbury Factory Has Been Hit By A Ransomware Attack & Is Freddo OK?

This is a bloody outrage of national proportions, folks.
A massive, global Ransomware attack has crippled businesses across the planet over the past few days, and it’s taken aim at a particularly unusual and innocent party here in Australia.
The Petya cyber attack has infected computers across Europe and the US, and has finally made its way out here to the merry old land of Aus.
Who, prey tell, have they targeted? The Federal Government? A high-profile telecommunications corporation? A large freight company?
No.
They’ve gone after the humble Cadbury Factory down in Tassie.
Motherfuckers.
The predominantly automated and computer-operated factory on the eastern shore of Hobart has had their entire system overtaken by the attack, with all computers locked out of normal operation from around 9:30pm last night. In place of ordinary displays, a message demanding $300 in bitcoin, of all bloody things, is shown.

The issue has filtered down to Cadbury from their parent company Mondelz International, who were the original target of this arm of the attack.

In a statement issued this morning, Mondelz asserted that they did not know how long it would take for the issue to be resolved.

“We continue to work quickly to address the current global IT outage across Mondelz International. Our teams are working offline in an effort to maintain business continuity with our customers and consumers around the world. We will share updates with our suppliers and partners as they become available. At this time, we do not know when our systems will be restored but we appreciate everyone’s patience, understanding and partnership during this process.”


Experts working to combat the attack have compared it to the similar ‘WannaCry‘ assault that crippled computers globally back in May.

Cybercrime on a global scale might be an extremely lucrative business, but attacking Dairy Milk? Preventing the factory from making Curly Wurlys? Going after the beloved Freddo By God Frog?
That’s a line you can never un-cross, you gutless bastards.

Source: ABC News.
Photo: Leon Compton/Twitter.


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