After completing a week, the hacker attack on Record TV’s systems begins to show details of the damage done. To demoralize the victim, BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group He put the São Paulo station on the front page of his blog on Sunday (16).
The criminal group that fulfilled the threat of leaking confidential documents from the publisher and its employees, – Also called Noberus and AlphaV by the FBI – It cited scanned spreadsheets containing details of the enrollment group’s spending, documents containing federal government advertising revenue, and even correspondence from the company’s legal department.
In addition to the eight secret files that were leaked, the cybercriminals showed a copy of the file, with the promise of more to come soon. passport of the host Hoje em Dia, Ana Hickmann.
Why are hackers leaking the Record’s confidential documents?
Disclosure of data from publisher of evangelical bishop Edir Macedo one day after the end of the ultimatum given by the hackers to pay the ransomIt was 13:50 on Saturday (15). If the payment was made up to one minute ago deadlineThe criminals offered a 10 million BRL discount on the total ransom amount of 35 million BRL in bitcoin.
Reproduction of copies of documents through the website live coins (16) On Sunday – sensitive data partially implicitly – it clarified some certainties. First, the television network did not pay the requested ransom. Worse, document capture was much higher than what the station’s IT department initially assessed.
Conversely, cybercriminals justified revealing sensitive information by saying, “The companies represented here did not cooperate with us and tried to hide our successful attack on their resources.”
The hackers reiterate that the Record’s material is still for sale. “We started looking for the right customers for their data on the dark web”, says the blog. Last week, cybercriminals also said they could launch more attacks against the company now that they know the publisher’s infrastructure.
Source: Tec Mundo
