A $ 50 million ransom from Apple. Here’s what a hacker group wants to keep from revealing confidential data
Hacker attack on Apple demanding a phenomenal ransom. The hackers behind the REvil ransomware claim to have stolen Apple's blueprints for its upcoming products. Ransom not to disclose them: $ 50 million.
REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, published a blog post claiming to have seized Apple product data after infiltrating the computer network of Quanta Computer Inc, a Taiwanese company that is a key supplier of Apple and is the largest laptop manufacturer in the world.
In a message posted on REvil's 'Happy Blog', a dark web portal where the gang of data kidnappers terrorizes victims and leaks data, they claimed that Quanta and Apple have so far refused to pay to recover the stolen data.
Soon after, hackers released schematics of a Macbook and threatened to publish new data every day until both companies paid a multimillion-dollar ransom to return the data.
Here is a part of REvil's “Happy Blog” post:
“In order not to wait for the next Apple presentations, today we, the REvil group, will provide data on the next versions of the company so loved by many. Tim Cook can say thanks to Quanta. For our part, a lot of time has been devoted to solving this problem. Quanta made it clear to us that it does not care about the data of its customers and employees, thus allowing the publication and sale of all the data in our possession “.
The post goes on to state that it contains "large amounts of confidential designs and gigabytes of personal data with several major brands, adding that" we advise Apple to repurchase the available data by May 1. from that day we will start publishing the files every day. "
REvil appears to have published Macbook schematics as evidence of the data seizure.
Here is the full post:
Quanta admitted to Bloomberg in a statement that an attack occurred, but didn't go into details.
If quanta does not pay 50 million by April 27, it will have to pay 100 by May 1, then the publication will begin. Obviously the money will travel untraceable to Tor.
According to the Tor payment page shared with BleepingComputer, Quanta has to pay $ 50 million until April 27th, or $ 100 million after the countdown ends. pic.twitter.com/FfyPb45Q29
– BleepingComputer (@BleepinComputer) April 20, 2021
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