Today the popular furniture store of Swedish origin, Ikea, reported to its employees around the world about an ongoing cyber attack that seeks to hijack employees' equipment through ransomware.
BleepingComputer shared an image of the mail the company is sending to its employees explaining that the cyberattack is ongoing and is spreading through corporate email, so they ask not to open emails regardless of who the sender is.
What else do you know about hacking Ikea?
The company has not shared many details about this, especially since at the moment it seems that everything is related internally for the sole purpose of hijacking employees' equipment and asking for a ransom to release them.
So far Ikea has not revealed that there are indications that the cyberattack has been direct to its servers with the intention of stealing personal information from the company, its employees and users such as mail accounts, telephone numbers, etc.
What has been mentioned is that other Ikea organizations, suppliers and some trading partners have been affected by this same ransomware via emails with malware.
The IT team at Ikea has been putting in 40 emails with ransomware without the possibility of the employees getting it out of there. In addition, they have mentioned that suspicious emails contain links to 7 digits at the end.
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So far there is no information that Ikea's business operation is being stopped in any country by the cyber attack, in fact, the website and requests for the time being are functioning normally.