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 particular attack results in the loss of data for them users of the free 10 GB storage facility.
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.
Ωστόσο, η τελευταία ενημέρωση κατάστασης ήταν παράξενη καθώς αναφέρει ότι ενώ τα δεδομένα χάθηκαν, “δεν υπάρχει κάποια διαρροή δεδομένων pictures. ”
Today, the BleepingComputer he says that Canon "is experiencing widespread system issues affecting many applications, groups, emails and other systems that may not be available at this time."
From this one vacationworking, the Canon USA website shows errors if you try to log in, as shown in the image below:
BleepingComputer also published a screenshot that supposedly shows the ransom note, and as it mentions it is a 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.
During this process, the malware steals unencrypted files from servers and backups. He uploads the stolen files to his own servers.
Once it collects anything of value it starts running the ransomware across the network to encrypt them all Appliances.
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.
