Flavour and fragrance producer Symrise, halts its production due to Clop ransomware attack where the attacker encrypted around 1000 devices.
Flavour and fragrance producer Symrise, halts its production due to Clop ransomware attack where the attacker encrypted around 1000 devices.
The attack was reported by Handelsblatt last week, and the website data breaches.net also disclosed the news after @Chum1ngo alerted them.
The company shut down all of its essential systems and halted production to prevent the malware from further spreading into its network.
Symrise notified the incident to the State Criminal Police Office and launched an investigation.
“As far as we know, it is a criminal act with extortion intent,” reported company’s spokeswoman.
The company did not disclose information about the family of malware that hit its system, nor about the ransom amount demanded.
“The Clop ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack on Symrise and have told BleepingComputer that they allegedly encrypted 1,000 devices, ” reported BleepingComputer.
“Clop told BleepingComputer they compromised Symrise’s network using malware distributed via phishing emails. Once the gained access to the network, Clop stated they stole 500 GB of unencrypted files before deploying their ransomware.”
The ransomware gang published images of allegedly stolen files on their data leak site, including passport scans, audit reports, accounting documents, confidential cosmetic ingredients and emails.
Clop ransomware is also behind the attacks on Software AG IT, Indiabulls, Maastricht University and E-land.
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