Traditional company Bernina makes cyber blackmailers look old

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Sewing as a hobby is seen by some as a somewhat conservative pastime. But things aren’t all stuffy at Bernina, the successful Swiss sewing machine manufacturer. As “Observer” wrote, the traditional company apparently duped the cybercriminals.

Hackers targeted Bernina on the Wednesday before Easter. They are said to have stolen company data and encrypted data on the company’s internal servers during their cyberattack. They then blackmailed the company into selling the data if they didn’t pay. Demand: $1.3 million.

Bernina makes hackers look old

The attack limited his ability to move within the group. But Bernina managed to save precious time and restore her own system with a clever negotiation strategy. The sewing machine manufacturer paid the blackmailers $10 instead of the required 1.3 million. This emerges from a chat history that hackers posted on the Darknet, as “The Observer” writes.

The chat history shows the hackers quite old compared to the sewing machine manufacturer: the negotiators on Bernina’s side managed to stall the hackers for twelve days. First, they negotiated the required amount. Then they wanted proof that the hackers could actually decrypt the data on the server.

What kind of data do hackers actually have?

Next, they were allegedly looking for a bank to transfer funds in a cryptocurrency. A day later, Bernina writes that the crypto trader cannot purchase the requested currency for regulatory reasons. The group then agreed to a test transfer with the blackmailers. 10 dollar stream. And other important days pass when Bernina can largely restore operability with old backups.

However, this does not completely solve the problem: Bernina does not know what data was stolen and to what extent. “As far as we know, the volume of data stolen is much lower than the hackers claimed,” the company told the “observer”.

The notorious hacker gang Alpha, formerly BlackCat, which was behind the attack, lists the supposed loot on its website: customer data, employee information and confidential bank documents from Bernina locations in Switzerland and Thailand. The gang boasts of stealing 450,000 files. (smt)

Source :Blick