A ransomware operation called Vice Society has claimed credit for attacks that hit two groups of independently owned and operated Spar-branded stores earlier this month.
On Dec. 6 via Twitter, Spar reported that for some of its U.K. operations, “there has been an online attack on our IT systems which is affecting stores’ ability to process card payments, meaning that a number of Spar stores are currently closed.”
No specific ransomware group was blamed for the attack. But the Vice Society ransomware group on Friday claimed credit for the hit via its data leak site, says Israeli threat intelligence firm Kela.
