Ransomware Hackers Target Popular Cloud Service Provider ‘Swiss Cloud’

Swiss Cloud, a Switzerland-based cloud hosting provider, suffered a ransomware attack that seriously impacted its server infrastructure. The incident took place on Tuesday, April 27, according to Swiss Cloud’s status page. 

The company, which is one of Switzerland’s major hosting providers, said on Friday in an update posted on its website that it’s working to restore affected servers from existing backups. 

“After the cyber-attack on April 27, work is proceeding to clean up the systems and restore normal operations at swiss cloud computing ag. The backup systems can be used for recovery. Parts of the complex server network affected by the attack must first be cleaned up individually and reconfigured with the corresponding temporal effects. The work to clean up and restore the servers, for which swiss cloud computing ag is supported by specialists from the system partners of HPE and Microsoft, gives reason to be confident that the systems will be available again in the coming week. The work will also continue on weekends in 24-hour shifts.” reads a statement posted by the company on its website. 

More than 6,500 clients affected