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Production Disrupted at Belgian Truckbuilder Mol after Cyberattack.

December 7, 2022

Mol Cy, the company in Belgium that builds trucks, trailers and soon also armored vehicles, was hit by a ransomware attack. A week later, the company is still rebuilding the network. According to the CEO, production was not compromised. “Supplies had just taken place and orders were in progress. Our production was of course disrupted, but in the end it did not come to a standstill. It was a bit more difficult to work at a number of workstations where computers provide information. But our staff managed to make do.” In recent days, about 50 employees have been at home for a while. “Especially our administrative staff cannot do their work without a PC and network. Unfortunately, they were temporarily unemployed.”

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Ferrari Hit in Ransomware Attack

March 20, 2023

Italian sports car giant, Ferrari S.p.A., reported Monday it suffered a ransomware attack affecting client details, but did not affect operations, officials said in an advisory.
The car company said it had been “recently contacted by a threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain client contact details. Upon receipt of the ransom demand, we immediately started an investigation in collaboration with a leading global third-party cybersecurity firm.”
In working with the third-party firm, they were able to confirm the stolen data was legitimate.

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Customer Data Breach at Toyota India

January 1, 2023

A data breach at Toyota Motor’s Indian business might have exposed some customers’ personal information, it said on Sunday. The car company warned that the accounts could be subject to spamming or phishing scams along with unsolicited emails.

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R&D Data Breach at Volvo Cars

November 30, 2021

Car company Volvo suffered a cyberattack on some of its research and development property, the manufacturer said in a press release. Volvo Cars said “it could impact the company’s operation”, but did not specify what that might be.

In a statement published on the dark web on the evening of November 30, the Snatch ransomware gang said it had attacked the Volvo Car Corporation (VCC). Snatch published screenshots of allegedly stolen data from the Volvo hack on a Darknet website viewed by inside-it.ch.

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Hacker Allegedly Sells Sensitive Data from Volvo

December 28, 2022

A threat actor is allegedly selling sensitive data, including information on vehicles the company sells to law enforcement.
Somebody has posted an ad on a popular hacking forum, claiming they are selling sensitive data of the Swedish manufacturing giant Volvo.

The threat actor behind insists that the company fell victim to a ransomware attack in late December. However, the attacker decided to sell the data instead, being convinced that Volvo would not pay the ransom. The relatively modest price set for the dataset signals the information might not be as sensitive.

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Continental Auto Group Hit in Attack

August 24, 2022

German multinational automotive group Continental suffered a cyberattack back in August and while the company said it successfully avert the assault, a ransomware group is now threatening to divulge information it said it stole during the hack.
In an August 24 statement, Continental said “in a cyberattack, attackers infiltrated parts of Continental’s IT systems. The company detected the attack in early August and then averted it. Continental’s business activities have not been affected at any point.

UPDATE: German business newspaper Handelsblatt reported in early November that the hackers had stolen around 40 terabytes of data from the company. The FBI is also involved in the investigation. Continental did not provide any information on the possible economic consequences in the statement. The reason for the lengthy internal investigations is partly due to the extent of the data leak. The company must analyze more than 55 million file entries from the list in the darknet.

The theft was said to include sensitive data from customers such as Volkswagen Group, information on supervisory board meetings and correspondence from chief controller Wolfgang Reitzle.

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BRP Suspends Operations Following Ransomware Attack

August 8, 2022

The Quebec-based company, which makes snowmobiles, personal watercraft and all-terrain vehicles, said it had been the target of “malicious computer activity” and had taken “immediate steps to contain the situation.” BRP (formerly Bombardier Recreational Products) said it has hired cybersecurity experts to help secure its systems and support an internal investigation. Suspending operations could delay some transactions with customers and vendors, BRP said.

BRP provided an update on the situation on August 15: “The Company confirms that the malware infiltration came through a third-party service provider. BRP believes that the impact of the cyberattack was limited to its internal systems.” “The evidence collected so far allows BRP to believe that the impact of this incident from a data privacy perspective should be limited. “

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300 GB of Sensitive Data Breached at Large Swiss Car Dealer

January 11, 2022

One of Europe’s biggest car dealers, Emil Frey, was hit with a ransomware attack last month, according to a statement from the company. The Swiss company showed up on the list of victims for the Hive ransomware on February 1 and confirmed that they were attacked in January. “We have restored and restarted our commercial activity already days after the incident on January 11, 2022,” a spokesperson said, declining to answer more questions about whether customer information was accessed.

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Ferrari Confirms Internal Documents Leaked, States No Evidence of Cyberattack.

October 2, 2022

Luxury car maker Ferrari is denying that it was hit with a ransomware attack after a gang added the company to its list of victims this week. The ransomware group RansomEXX posted to its leak site claiming to have stolen 7 GB of data from the company. The stolen documents allegedly include contracts, invoices, internal company information, repair manuals and more.

In a statement to The Record on Tuesday, a Ferrari spokesperson said it was aware of reports that documents from the company have been leaked online but said it is not dealing with any kind of ransomware attack or cybersecurity incident.

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