{"id":44180,"date":"2021-11-29T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wind-turbine-maker-vestas-confirms-recent-security-incident-was-ransomware\/"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:29:13","slug":"wind-turbine-maker-vestas-confirms-recent-security-incident-was-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wind-turbine-maker-vestas-confirms-recent-security-incident-was-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was<\/i> ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wind turbine maker Vestas says “almost all” of its IT systems are finally up and running 10 days after a security attack by criminals, confirming that it had indeed fallen victim to ransomware.<\/p>\n

Alarm bells rang the weekend before last when the Danish organisation said<\/a> it had identified a “cyber security incident” and closed off parts of its tech estate to “contain the issue.”<\/p>\n

Today the business – one of the largest worldwide to design, build, install and maintain wind turbines \u2013 said it has undertaken “extensive investigations, forensics, restoration activities and hardening of our IT systems and IT infrastructure.”<\/p>\n