Another vendor threat

Most owners of small and medium-sized businesses worry greatly about cyberattacks, yet few take steps to properly protect themselves, a survey finds.

While BT Group emphasized that only its BT Conferencing platform had been subjected to an attempted compromise that did not affect its other services, Black Basta claimed to have exfiltrated 500 GB of data from the firm's servers, including user information, personal documents, nondisclosure agreements, financial and organizational details, and other confidential files.

The vodka distributor cited the cyberattack, legal battles with Russia and macroeconomic issues in its filing.