Foxconn electronics giant hit by ransomware, $34 million ransom

silversurfer

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Foxconn electronics giant suffered a ransomware attack at a Mexican facility over the Thanksgiving weekend, where attackers stole unencrypted files before encrypting devices.
Foxconn is the largest electronics manufacturing company globally, with recorded revenue of $172 billion in 2019 and over 800,000 employees worldwide.

BleepingComputer has been tracking a rumored Foxconn ransomware attack that occurred over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Today, the DoppelPaymer ransomware published files belonging to Foxconn NA on their ransomware data leak site. The leaked data includes generic business documents and reports but does not contain any financial information or employee's personal details. [...]
 

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Included in the ransom note is a link to Foxconn's victim page on DoppelPaymer's Tor payment site where the threat actors are demanding a 1804.0955 BTC ransom
Where? For some reason this pretty important number is excluded.
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"Wellcome", I see that a lot in eastern Asia, China & Vietnam to be specific. Could it be a local hitjob or a regional espionage?
 
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