Ferrari, the luxury car maker has made an official announcement that some of its systems were operating under control of hackers, resulting in a data breach. The company immediately pulled down the compromised servers from the corporate computer network and began remediation efforts.

The Italian car maker has begun to send email notifications to its customers and mentioned in it that the hackers might have gained access to information such as names, addresses, email contacts and telephone numbers of customers.

However, the company did not find any evidence that the leaked info accessed, stolen or misused by the threat actors were being misused.

As the company doesn’t store sensitive details like payment info or bank account numbers of customers on its official servers, so the hackers did not access those details…. that’s great!

Ferrari S.p.A was contacted by a representative of the threat actor demanding ransom and the demanded sum will be disclosed after the preliminary investigations over the data theft get over. 

In another similar incident, The National Basket Association (NBA) has issued a statement that some of its data stored on the servers of the 3rd party newsletter service were accessed and stolen by hackers belonging to a noted ransomware gang. The only good part of this cyber incident is that none of the fan credentials or their details were stolen by the hackers.

A third-party forensic service contacted by the sporting organization is urging all customers of NBA to be vigilant, as some of those affected might experience phishing attacks or cyber scams of such sort.

 

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Ferrari, the luxury car maker, was recently hit by a ransomware attack that apparently led to data leak that is now being posted online on an installment basis. On the other hand, the Italian sports car maker has denied any digital attack on its servers and is still investigating on how the sensitive info leaked online.

Corriera Della Sera, an Italian news resource, confirmed the attack and claims to possess evidence that internal data sheets, repair handbooks and some employee data account to 7GB of data was accessed and stolen by hackers, who are now posting them online.

RansomEXX Group has taken claim of hacking the database of Ferrari in between Aug-Sept this year and as the car maker failed to pay the ransom, they are indulging in extortion tactics to pressurize the racing car producer.

NOTE 1- Since the year 2020, RansomEXX has been highly prevalent on the dark web and has mainly targeted companies from the United States and Europe. As its binary is having ‘ ransom.exx” extension, it is being called as RansomEXX and is found to be infecting both Windows and Linux variants.

NOTE 2- FBI and other law enforcement agencies across the world are urging the populace not to pay a ransom, if in case, they are targeted by a file encrypting malware. They are also asking the victims to report the incident to the police agencies so that the criminals behind the attack can be nabbed on time and the transaction that took place in cryptocurrency can be recovered.

NOTE 3- Because of a rise in ransomware attacks, the value of cryptocurrency such as Bitcoins and Monero has doubled and tripled in recent years.

 

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