- Asahi’s Japanese Distribution Centers and Customer Services are Offline
- No Ransomware -Group has yet assumed responsibility for the attack
- Recent Cyberattacks have cost high profiled companies million million
Japan’s largest brewery, Asahi Group Holdings, has become the latest company in an alarmingly fast -growing list of victims that have experienced a cyberattack that WHCIH has forced to close some work.
The attack seems to have only affected the company’s domestic operations, with international branches that have so far been affected – but it has still left Asahi with no choice other than suspending orders and shipments all over Japan.
Apart from shutdowns of distribution center, call centers and customer service shots are also taken offline.
Asahi hit by cyberattack, still online international
Asahi has estimated a third of Japan’s domestic beer market, but it has a global reach through its other brands, including Peroni, Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch and Fullers.
Japan still accounts for about half of Asahi’s profits, making the disturbance particularly influential, even though the company manages to contain domestic.
“We are actively investigating the cause and working to restore operations; however, there are currently no estimated timeline for recovery,” the company declared in a press release. “The system error is limited to our operations in Japan.”
“We are actively investigating the cause and working to restore operations, but there is currently not an estimated timeline for improvement,” added Asahi.
Right now, no ransomware has taken credit for the attack.
But Asahi’s story is only a small part of a much larger global trend. A former M&S attack attributed to scattered spider kept some systems offline for four months, with the financial year intended to be cut by £ 300 million.
A recent attack on Jaguar Land Rover set a break to New Car Manufacturing, with the company still recovering systems.
Currently, Asahi has not shared more details. It can take weeks of investigative and recovery work to fully restore systems, and that is if attackers are unable to move laterally and affect Asahi’s global operations.
