Ransomware group demands $50M for stolen Apple schematics

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A ransomware group titled REvil has threatened to publish "large quantities of confidential drawings and gigabytes of own data" stolen from a Taiwanese laptop producer, including designs for several Apple laptops. Reported to a report at The Put down, REvil has asked for $50 million As redeem for the stolen files.

REvil posted screenshots of Orchard apple tree's MacBooks along a dark web portal vein connected Wednesday, on with a demand for Apple to pay for the return of the close files. According to the post, REvil got the materials from Quanta Electronic computer, a large manufacturer of laptops for Apple and early tech companies, including Lenovo and HP.

"Quanta has made it clear to us that it does not care astir the information of its customers and employees, thereby allowing the publication and sales agreement of all data we have… We recommend that Apple buy up back the available information by May 1," the group same. The Charles William Post threatens to publish more of Apple's files daily until the ransom is paid.

Quanta posted a faint command more or less the incident along its website, stating its security team "has worked with outer IT experts in response to cyber attacks along a small number of Quanta servers" and that it's in contact with the earmark authorities. It claims "no material impact" connected its business surgical procedure.

REvil is a Russian hacking mathematical group also identified as Sodinokibi. It's pulled a string of ransomware attacks in the survive two years, targeting celebrities like Lady Gaga besides as other large corporations including Acer and drug company Pierre Fabre. In an October 2020 interview, the group claimed to be devising much than $100 million per year from its ransomware attacks. That amount is, obviously, impossible to affirm.

The group timed its threat letter on Wednesday to Apple's reveal event for its new iMac and iPad tablets and included schematics of that iMac design. It seems plausible that REvil's stolen files admit schematics for multiple upcoming unreleased products—those World Health Organization have looked at the documents leaked so distant found evidence of an future MacBook Pro design with more USB ports.

Apple told The Record that information technology is looking into the parenthetical, but has so far made nary statement on how it plans to deal with the redeem.

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