Canon has been attacked by ransomware that affects many services, such as Canon email, Microsoft Teams, the US website, photo storage service, video cloud and other internal applications.
This attack results in the loss of data for users of the free storage capacity of 10 GB.
According to a company announcement released on subdamain image.canon, Canon's services ceased operations on July 30, 2020 for six days. The subdamain image.canon started displaying status updates from yesterday, August 4th.
However, the latest status update was strange as it states that while the data was lost, "there is no image data leakage."
Today, the BleepingComputer he says that Canon “faces problems system wide that affect many applications, groups, email and other systems may not be available at this time.”
From this particular shutdown, the Canon USA website displays errors if you try to log in, as shown in the image below:
Η BleepingComputer δημοσίευσε και ένα screenshot που υποτίθεται ότι εμφανίζει το σημείωμα του ransom, και όπως αναφέρει πρόκειται για ένα Maze ransomware.
According to BleepingComputer, the hackers claim to have stolen 10 TB of data from Canon, "10 terabytes of data, private databases, etc."
When they came into contact with him hacker declined to provide further information about the attack, such as the ransom amount it is demanding, a proof of the stolen data and the scope of the attack.
Maze ransomware targets businesses, which is secretly distributed through a network, until it gains access to an administrator account and the Windows domain controller of the system.
Κατά τη διάρκεια αυτής της διαδικασίας, το κακόβουλο λειτουργικό κλέβει μη κρυπτογραφημένα αρχεία από ρους διακομιστές και αντίγραφα ασφαλείας. Τα κλεμμένα αρχεία τα ανεβάζει σε δικούς του servers.
Once it has collected anything of value ransomware starts running all over the network to encrypt all the devices.
If the victim does not pay the ransom, the hacker behind the attack will publicly release the stolen victim files.
Maze ransomware has hit many other high-profile victims in the past, including LG, Xerox, Conduent, MaxLinear, Cognizant, Chubb, VT San Antonio Aerospace, City of Pensacola, Florida and more.
