Which new and up and coming ransomware group is responsible for the supposed attack of Kawasaki Motor LTD.? When did this group form and what were its notable attacks? Its OK if you don’t know them all.
Kawasaki Motors Europe has announced that it’s recovering from a cyberattack that caused service disruptions as the RansomHub ransomware gang threatens to leak stolen data.
“At the start of September, Kawasaki Motors Europe (KME) was the subject of a cyber-attack which, although not successful, resulted in the company’s servers being temporarily isolated until a strategic recovery plan was initiated later on the same day,” reads the announcement.
Kawasaki Motors Europe is a subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., a global Japanese company known for manufacturing motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), Jet Skis, utility vehicles, and other motorized products.
The company says that its IT staff collaborated with external cybersecurity experts following the attack, checking servers one by one before they connected them back into the corporate network.
KME estimates that by the start of next week, 90% of its server infrastructure will have been restored.
Now, for the answer. If you’ve guessed RansomHub, you’re correct.
Kawasaki’s announcement comes as the RansomHub ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack on the company.
The threat group added the company to its extortion portal on the dark web on September 5, 2024, claiming the theft of 487 GB of data from Kawasaki’s networks.
RansomHub has become prolific since the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation shut down, with many of its affiliates moving to the newer ransomware-as-a-service program.
With the influx of skilled affiliates, RansomHub has seen a surge in successful attacks, including those against a division of Rite Aid, Frontier, Planned Parenthood, Halliburton, Christie’s,
Last month, a joint advisory between the FBI, CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that RansomHub breached 210 victims from a wide range of critical U.S. infrastructure sectors since it launched in February.