UL LLC is also known as Underwriters Laboratories, which is the largest and the oldest organization situated in the United States working with 14,000 employees and located in over 40 countries. The organization is suffered from a ransomware attack that encrypted their servers and results to shut down the system for the recovery process.

If you ever looked at the back of any electric appliances that include a laptop, TV remote, lightbulb, Apple USB charger the UL logo is imprinted on the easily recognizable device.

As the organizations launch new products they send them to the Underwriters Laboratories for testing and certification under the national law of recognizing safety and sustainability standards. According to the test results, the product will be certified with UL. While updating the security certifications Underwriter Laboratories develop the popular applications named as 3DMark, PCMark, VRMark, and other graphics-related utilities.

Now read the upcoming section to know about what happened with UL.

How UL was Connected by Ransomware?

Last week, the security researcher discovered that Underwriters Laboratories suffered from a ransomware attack, and their devices are encrypted. While revoking this attack, the organization shut down its systems and working with very limited employees.

The organization also told their employees that don’t visit any site related to the operation and don’t try to contact the attackers. The organization also decided not to pay any type of ransom to the attackers that are working on restoring their backups.

The Underwrites Laboratories spokesperson said that the attack was executed on 13th February and the investigation is still running. They also said that the UL detected unauthorized activity on their system on 13th February and they took immediate steps while addressing the attack, they shut down their systems and taking help from other security firms by alerting the authorities.

The organization wants to minimize the disruption caused by this attack. Along with that they also added we are learning multiple things from our investigation and we cannot detect the information that is impacted, we are taking all the possible action to revoke this attack.

Summering Up

We are aware that in these types of ransomware operations, that attackers stole the data and demand ransomware from the organizations. Most of the organizations are targeting in these operations and the hackers are stealing their data.