Ryuk ransomware blamed for attack on cloud provider

US-based cloud hosting provider DataResolution.net is in the process of recovering its systems after getting hit by the Ryuk ransomware over the winter holidays.News of the apparently profit-motivated hack, yet to be publicly acknowledged by the Microsoft hosting partner, was broken by investigative reporter Brian Krebs on Wednesday.Data Resolution informed customers that it was hit on Christmas Eve (December 24) by the same strain of ransomware that hobbled the operations of several big US newspapers including the LA Times and Chicago Tribune last weekend.Data Resolution, which offers cloud computing and data center services to 30,000 businesses worldwide, has called in external help and is in the process of restoring data from backups.According to status updates to its customers obtained by Krebs, Data Resolution hackers abused a compromised login account to infect servers with Ryuk, a ransomware variant.