A group of cybercriminals infected with ransomware at the
Kia Motors America Company, which allegedly disabled services
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The company and the payment system.
Bleeping Computer reported that cybercriminals would have
order 404 Bitcoins, which is equivalent to 20 million dollars, So that these
decrypt data they encrypted with ransomware.
Even if at first the ransom payment is in 20 Million
of dollars, this would amount to about 600 Bitcoins, which is equivalent to about 30
million dollars, This information would be in a supposed ransom note
sent by cybercriminals to the American company.
As usual in these ransom notes, in case of
that the company does not make contact with cybercriminals within three days,
A part of the data would be publicly leaked. In addition, In the note of
Rescue is added a private page on a site on the DoppelPaymer Tor site,
where it indicates that the target is "Hyundai Motor America". The page indicates
What, if no agreement is reached, A lot of stolen data would be
Posted on 2-3 Weeks.
Kia on the other hand, publicly denies such a cyberattack,
indicating that they are speculations. Indicating in the message that there is none
evidence that any data has been subjected in a ransomware attack.