Gigabyte hit by ransomware once again
PC hardware giant yet to officially comment on attack
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Taiwanese hardware manufacturerGigabytehas supposedly fallen prey to yet anotherransomwareattack.
If true, it would be the second time the companye has been targeted by a ransomware operator in 2021 following an earlierattack in August.
While Gigabyte hasn’t yet commented on the incident, according to dark web criminal intelligence platform DarkTracer, the company’s name has appeared in thelist of victimsof the relatively new ransomware operative AvosLocker.
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According toSiliconANGLE, AvosLocker was first seen towards theend of Juneas it was observed trawling the underground forums looking for affiliates to do its dirty work by spreading itsmalware.
Sensitive data
As is usually the case, the AvosLocker gang has reportedly published some of the stolen data as proof of their attack on Gigabyte.
Privacy Sharks claims to haveseen the data sample, and says that it contains lots of sensitive information including passwords and usernames, employee payroll details, human resources documents, andcredit carddetails.
Furthermore, the shared 14.9 MB sample also contains documents of Gigabytes dealings with other reputable firms such as Barracuda Networks,Blizzard, Black Magic,Intel,Kingston, Amazon, andBestBuy.
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If the contents in the sample are indeed authentic it could cause sleepless nights at Gigabyte HQ, especially since areportearlier this month suggested that AvosLocker plans to pioneer a twist to the classic double-extortion methodology to punish non-paying victims by auctioning their data rather than posting it for free.
Industry experts believe that given the nature of the exfiltrated data, Gigabyte would be left with little option but to pony up since it wouldn’t want these sensitive details to end up with one of its competitors.
ViaSiliconANGLE
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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