Prominent apple supplier Quanta on Wednesday said it suffered a ransomware attack from the Revile ransomware group which is now demanding the iPhone maker to pay a ransom of $50 million to prevent leaking sensitive files on the dark web.
In a post shared on its Deep web "Happy Blog" portal, the threat actor said it came into possession of schematics of the U.S. company's products such as MacBook's and Apple Watch by infiltrating the network of the Taiwanese manufacturer, claiming it's making a ransom demand to Apple after Quanta expressed no interest in paying to recover the stolen blueprints. "Our team is negotiating the sale of large quantities of confidential. drawings and gigabytes of personal data with several major brands," the REvil operators said "We recommend that Apple buy back the available data by May 1."
Since first detected in June 2019, REvil has emerged as one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups with the gang being the first to adopt the so-called technique of "double extortion" that has since been emulated by other groups to maximize their chances of making a profit. The strategy seeks to pressure victim companies into paying up mainly by publishing a handful of files stolen from their extortion targets prior to encrypting them and threatening to release more data unless and until the ransom demand is met. The main actor associated with advertising and promoting REvil on Russian-language cybercrime forums is called Unknown, aka UNKN.
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