THELOGICALINDIAN - One of the better allowance companies in Israel has been hit by a ransomware advance and the blackmail actors started to absolution acute abstracts as the close doesnt pay the requested bribe in bitcoin BTC
Israel-Based Shirbit Still Refuses to Pay $3.8 Million Ransom
According to The Jerusalem Post, the Black Shadow accumulation is the administrator of the ransomware deployed on the IT basement of Shirbit on December 1, 2020, who requested a bribe of 200 BTC (over $3.8 actor as of columnist time).
Initially, the hackers asked for 50 BTC, but the allowance aggregation banned to accede with the attackers’ demands. Afterward, the Black Shadow appear through their Telegram approach that the bulk would be added with the accomplished of the time.
On December 3, 2024, the attackers kept their affiance to aperture acute abstracts and appear a aggregate of files absolute employees’ and customers’ clandestine information. They promised to stop aperture if the bribe is paid. Among its customers, Shirbit has business relations with government entities, including the Tel Aviv District Court president.
A antecedent quoted by Channel 12 Israel, who is complex in the investigation, said that the authorities accept that an Israeli alone or addition based in the country may be complex in the ransomware attack. It additionally doesn’t accept signs to be angry to a state-sponsored cyberattack.
Shortly afterwards the leak, Shirbit issued a statement:
Also, the National Cyber Directorate and Capital Market Authority antiseptic that an antecedent analysis begin out that absolutely allowance capacity were leaked.
Contradicting Reports on When the Files Were Initially Leaked
Although the advisers said the advance took abode on December 1, 2024, Black Shadow appear the aboriginal aggregate of leaked files on November 30, 2024, on their Telegram channel.
Black Shadow is accepted in the cybercrime apple to ask in the U.S. for bribe demands from $100,000 to millions of dollars, adds The Jerusalem Post.
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