- Japanese Asahi distribution centers and customer service are offline
- No ransomware group has assumed the responsibility of the attack still
- Recent cyber attacks have cost high profile companies millions
The largest brewery in Japan, Asahi Group Holdings, has become a list of alarmingly rapidly rapidly rapid growth victims that has experienced a cyber attack that has forced him to close some work.
The attack seems to have affected only the national operations of the company, with international branches not affected so far, but has still left Asahi with no other option to suspend orders and shipments throughout Japan.
In addition to the closure of the distribution center, call centers and customer service desks have also disconnected.
Asahi hit by cyberattack, still online internationally
Asahi has an estimated third of the national beer market in Japan, but has a global reach through its other brands, including Peroni, Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch and Fuller’s.
Even so, Japan represents around half of Asahi’s profits, which makes the interruption particularly shocking, even if the company manages to contain it nationwide.
“We are actively investigating the cause and work to restore operations; however, there is currently no estimated timeline for recovery,” the company said in a press release. “The system failure is limited to our operations within Japan.”
“We are actively investigating the cause and work to restore operations; however, there is currently no estimated timeline for recovery,” Asahi added.
At this time, no ransomware gang has been attributed to the attack.
But Asahi’s story is just a small portion of a much larger global trend. An previous M&S attack attributed to the scattered spider maintained some out -of -line systems for four months, with profits of the fiscal year that was reduced by £ 300 million.
A more recent attack against Jaguar Land Rover pauses the manufacture of new cars, with the company still in the process of restoration of systems.
For now, Asahi has not shared more details. It could take weeks of research and recovery work to completely restore the systems, and it is whether the attackers cannot move laterally and affect ASAHI’s global operations.
