Enel Group suffered a second wave of ransomware attack this year, and the Netwalker ransom operators are asking a $14 million ransom for the decryption key.
Enel Group suffered a second wave of ransomware attack this year, and the Netwalker ransom operators are asking a $14 million ransom for the decryption key. The hackers claim to have stolen several terabytes of data from the company and threaten to leak them if the ransom is not paid.
Enel Group is an Italian multinational energy company with more than 61 million customers across 40 countries. The company is active in the sectors of electricity generation and distribution.
A researcher shared a Netwalker ransom note with BleepingComputer on October 19th, that seems to be from an attack on Enel Group.
The ransom note included a link that revealed stolen data from the attack. Based on the details of the employees in the folders, it was inferred that the attack was on Enel Group.
BleepingComputer notified Enel Group about the attack but never heard back. A few days later Netwalker added a message to their support chat, stating “Hello Enel. Don’t be afraid to write us.”
Enel never responded to the ransomware operators, and for this reason, attackers started using their style that is taking a portion of the stolen data as proof of the data breach.
The ransomware operators published some screenshots of unencrypted files stolen from the Enel Group to their data leak site.
The ransomware operators are asking $14 million worth of Bitcoin (roughly 1234.02380000 BTC).
According to Netwalker, they have stolen about five terabytes of data from the company and are ready to publicly disclose it in a week. They also added that they would “analyse every file for interesting things” and publish it on their leak site.
Enel was hit by Snake ransomware back in June. The attack was quickly restricted, and the malware was not able to spread within its network.
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