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Ring, the Amazon-owned security camera company, is no stranger to security concerns. Unfortunately, things could get worse as a large ransomware group claims it breached Ring’s systems and is now threatening to release all the data.
According to Vice’s Motherboard, a group known as ALPHV added the Ring logo to a new post on their site listing attacks and data leaks. More importantly, next to the logo is a threatening comment that says: “there is always an option to allow us to leak your data.”
As of now, the content of the hack is unknown, so it could be anything from customer information to camera data. Motherboard said that Ring has reached out and claims that he has no evidence of a breach of his systems. However, Ring said that a third-party provider was attacked.
For those who don’t know, ALPHV, whose malware is known as BlackCat, posts its hacks on a website. The idea is to mention the company and shame them into paying a ransom. If Ring doesn’t pay, the group begins threatening to release the stolen data.
From what we’re hearing right now, things are already at that stage, which is not a good sign. There is a possibility that Ring refuses to pay, or the talks failed, and now the ransomware group started with the threats.
Motherboard went on to say that “one person” notified Amazon employees of the situation in a Slack message and said “don’t talk about this,” and that the appropriate security teams are actively involved in the incident.
Again, we don’t know much yet. There’s no clear indication of what kind of data the group collected, where it came from, or what’s going on internally. That being said, we’ll likely learn more soon.
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