Spanish Brewery “Paralyzed” by Cyber-Attack

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Spanish Brewery “Paralyzed” by Cyber-Attack
November 12, 2021
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/spanish-brewery-paralyzed-by/

Spain’s second-biggest brewery sa ys it expects to fully recover from a “highly complex” cyber-attack “in the coming days.”

Sociedad Anónima Damm, which has been making the world-renowned Estrella Damm lager since 1876, was targeted by cyber-criminals on Tuesday.
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The attack on the company’s computer systems temporarily halted production at all of Damm’s breweries. However, the main brewery in El Prat de Llobregat, which is located near the capital city of Barcelona, was slowest to recover.

Approximately 500 employees work at the El Prat de Llobregat plant, which typically produces 7 million hectolitres of beer a year. Damm’s head of communications, Olga Vidal, told Reuters on Friday that the digital assault had “entirely paralyzed” the plant for a two-hour period.
Damm reportedly relies on computer-driven technology to complete its bottling processes.
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Vidal did not disclose the nature of the attack, nor did she say whether Damm made a ransom payment to its attackers.

A Damm spokesperson told the Ara newspaper that the brewery had suffered a “computer incident in the operating system,” which was “under investigation.”
The same spokesperson said that the brewery had activated its emergency response plan and was now working to restore production to its normal level.
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