Computer component maker Gigabyte suffered a ransomware attack, where the hackers threaten to publish 112GB of stolen data unless a ransom is paid.
- Taiwanese motherboard maker Gigabyte suffered a ransomware attack.
- The attack affected the company's multiple websites, including its support site and portions of the Taiwanese website.
Computer component maker Gigabyte suffered a ransomware attack, where the hackers threaten to publish 112GB of stolen data unless a ransom is paid.
Gigabyte is a well-known manufacturer of laptops, data centre servers, monitors, graphics cards and motherboards.
Gigabyte confirmed that a hacker attacked some servers on Tuesday night, and the security defence was activated as soon as possible. The company stated that all affected internal services had resumed operation, and currently, sales, production and daily operations are not affected.
GIGABYTE released a major message announcing that the “information security team has cooperated with technical experts from a number of external information security companies to jointly handle this cyber attack on a small number of servers of GIGABYTE and has informed the abnormal network conditions it has detected,” reports the Chinese news site United Daily News.
BleepingComputer received a ransom note that comprises a link to a non-public page containing instructions for Gigabytes to start negotiations. The page also enables the victims to test the decryption of a file encrypted by ransomware.
According to BleepingComputer, the ransomware operation was conducted by the RansomEXX gang.
“We have downloaded 112 GB (120,971,743,713 bytes) of your files, and we are ready to PUBLISH it.
Many of them are under NDA (Intel, AMD, American Megatrends).
Leak sources: newautobom.gigabyte.intra, git.ami.com.tw and some others.” read the leaked page viewed by BleepingComputer.
The company is examining how the breach occurred. Still, chances are it all began with a phishing email campaign or stolen credentials obtained from an online source, as is usually the case with these attacks.
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