Numerous companies, universities, colleges, government agencies, and municipalities across Sweden have been impacted by outages after Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting firm Tietoevry had one of its Sweden-based data centers compromised in a ransomware attack allegedly conducted by the Akira ransomware operation, BleepingComputer reports. Such an attack, which involved the encryption of Tietroevry’s virtualization and management servers in Sweden, impacted not only the Filmstaden, the country’s largest cinema chain, and discount retail chain Rusta, but also the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University, and Uppsala County among others through outages affecting the company’s Primula payroll and human resources management system.

Source: SC Magazine