Cyberattack on BRP

[billybovine]

Yesterday August 8th 2022. BRP had a cyberattack. Suspending it's operations. At least that's what the news stories say. Here is link to one of the many news stories on the subject.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9047589/q...o-cyberattack/

BRPs news release.

https://news.brp.com/news-releases/n...ts-cyberattack

[JohnRuckus]

uggh!

[CloverHillCrawler]

Lovely more parts and delivery delays, just lovely. Just pray your left hand control cluster or any thing else nowadays doesn't go out anytime soon.

Pandemic , fires at factories, now this. Not looking good for BRP but I guess they must be making some sort of money to be able to buy out pinion gearboxes this week.

[ARtraveler]

[Saluda]

That'll really help things !

[Deanna777]

Deanna

[troop]

Hacker is either waiting for parts to take delivery on his 2022 or angry with front pulley recall..

[oldgoat]

Production at Valcourt still down after 2 days.

[PeterKelly]

I was talking to the Service Dept at a local dealer and they mentioned that BRP suffered a “cyber event” this week and that some or all of their systems are down.

Has anyone else heard this?

[troop]

I was talking to the Service Dept at a local dealer and they mentioned that BRP suffered a “cyber event” this week and that some or all of their systems are down.

Has anyone else heard this?

I'm guessing that the cyber attack is the reason for this post?

[Raven]

The news this morning said that BRP would be down for another week because of the cyber attack.

[ARtraveler]

A perfect storm "Murphy's Law" application.

not much more I can say on this subject.

[Pirate]

BRP needs to hire competent IT personnel. Data should have been backed up and key systems shouldn't have had internet access.

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

BRP needs to hire competent IT personnel. Data should have been backed up and key systems shouldn't have had internet access.

A rather simplistic answer considering we have no idea what actually happened. And what we also don't know is how many companies have been crippled by cyber attacks because they don't disclose such negative information.

[Pirate]

A rather simplistic answer considering we have no idea what actually happened. And what we also don't know is how many companies have been crippled by cyber attacks because they don't disclose such negative information.

I work in IT and can't tell you how many systems I have seen where the administrators haven't locked out remote admin, they haven't secured configuration of the web server software/OS, or haven't isolated key systems. We probably won't know what caused the shutdown, but it shouldn't have happened in the first place.

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

but it shouldn't have happened in the first place.

[billybovine]

News release from BRP. 4 facilities are restarting today and the rest will be restarting this week. The malware infiltration came through a 3rd party service provider.

https://news.brp.com/news-releases/n...er-cyberattack

[Piratezz]

That's what I would say, to the public....

[FrogmanDave]

That's what I would say, to the public....

Cynical much....??

[mcalva]

I work in IT and can't tell you how many systems I have seen where the administrators haven't locked out remote admin, they haven't secured configuration of the web server software/OS, or haven't isolated key systems. We probably won't know what caused the shutdown, but it shouldn't have happened in the first place.

It is possible that there has been some mistake or that the company's management has said that famous phrase: "we manufacture motorcycles, we are not a bank" in order to save money, but as a former head of security for a multinational during a lot of years I can guarantee that "the bad guys" almost always are one step ahead

[Rooster58]

Makes me wonder what kind of delay this is going to put on the reverse actuator I am waiting on for my 2022 RTL?

[DanDanTMM]

BRP needs to hire competent IT personnel. Data should have been backed up and key systems shouldn't have had internet access.

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I am also in IT at a fairly large corp and an avid follower of the Darknet Diaries podcast. There is a pretty high probability that BRP did not get compromised by an attack on one of their external (internet) facing applications. Attacks like this usually come from the inside, where companies don't have the level of security like they do on their external facing applications. They probably got in through some sort of phishing or social engineering attack against them or a vendor (I now see it was a vendor). These cyber attacks come from sophisticated groups that use social media to target specific colleagues that might have access to key systems. All they need to do is get them to click on some link and either capture their credentials or get a piece of malware installed on their computer and the door is open. All it takes is some server in their environment that has a really old operating system that has not been patched or has known vulnerabilities (Windows Server 2003 or 2008 for example) and they have an easy path straight to their core network. These cyber criminals just don't get in and start encrypting stuff. They sit and watch for weeks sometimes to learn the network and insure they have access to as many systems as possible. They also look at things like backup systems to make sure they disable (encrypt) those too so you can't just restore everything easily and avoid paying the ransom. There are specific backup solutions that protect you from this sort of thing but they can be expensive to implement. Once they get their encryption software planted undetected to their satisfaction they will download key data as a means to entice you to pay the ransom. If all you had to do is restore everything from backup there is no incentive to pay, but when they tell you they are going to post your entire customer database on the dark web for anyone to download along with all of your classified information, people tend to pay to get the key to unencrypt everything. The odd thing is that these cyber criminals have a business model and will typically give you the key and not post your data if you pay. They need to have a reputation of following through or nobody would ever pay them.

So my guess is that BRP will be investing heavily in better network monitoring software and software more than just virus software to lock down their laptops/desktops/servers. It's a constant game to stay ahead of the criminals these days.

[FrogmanDave]

@DanDanTMM, well said sir. It is obvious you have a very good grasp of this situation.

[guppy]

This situation is killing me I traded my Ryker 2 weeks ago on a 2022 F3-t that was in stock and actually on the floor. Great, no supply issues...except due to this cyber attack, the BRP back-end system that dealers use is down so they can't process my sale I have a Spyder..right there...ready to go...except I can't have it. AGGGHHHH

It's incredible how long they have been down now - this must have been huge.

[Raven]

Guppy where in Ontario are you ?
What dealer is it?
If I can get my two wheeler sold, I am looking for a Ryker.