RansomHub releases 487GB of data allegedly stolen from Kawasaki Cybernews

p 2024 Cybernews Latest Cybersecurity and Tech News Research AnalysisppRansomHub a ransomware newcomer that rose to prominence this year has claimed a breach of Japanese company Kawasaki and released 487GB of its data publiclyppLast week Kawasakis European headquarters released a statement in which they informed the public that it was recovering from a cyberattackppAt the start of September Kawasaki Motors Europe KME was the subject of a cyberattack which although not successful resulted in the companys servers being temporarily isolated until a strategic recovery plan was initiated later on the same day the company saidppDue to the incident as a precaution KME and country branches isolated a large number of servers and put a cleansing process in place to check the data It took a week to isolate and check all the servers restore their interconnectivity and resume normal business operationsppRansomHub has since leaked 487GB of data allegedly belonging to the kawasakieu website The gang posted the data on its extortion site on the dark web which usually means that the company refused to pay the ransom The post did not contain any notes except the company description and a link to the datappThe Hackreadcom research team found critical business documents including financial information banking records dealership details and internal communications among the exposed filesppRansomHub only emerged in February this year and already has compromised more than 200 victims prompting the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and other agencies to release a joint advisory to fight this menaceppRansomHub claims that its only interested in dollars but its allegiance may be revealed by its other statement that it does not allow CIS Commonwealth of Independent States consisting of Russia and their allies Cuba North Korea and China to be targetedppThe ransomware operator asks for a 10 share from its affiliates who often use double extortion tactics threatening to publicly release the locked information Ransom notes typically leave between 390 days to pay the ransom before the group publishes the stolen datapp
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