Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), QUANTA COMPUTER REG (QUCCF) - Apple Supplier Quanta Hacked In $50M Ransomware Attack By Russian Group: Bloomberg benzinga.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from benzinga.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By the time Apple’s product launch was over, REvil had posted schematics for a new laptop, including 15 images detailing the guts of what appears to be a Macbook designed as recently as March 2021, according to the documents reviewed by Bloomberg. Reuters
As Apple Inc was revealing its newest line of iPads and flashy new iMacs on April 20, one of its primary suppliers was enduring a ransomware attack from a Russian operator claiming to have stolen blueprints of the US company’s latest products.
The ransomware group REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, published a blog on its darkweb site early on Tuesday in which it claimed to have infiltrated the computer network of Quanta Computer Inc. The Taiwan-based company is a key supplier to Apple, manufacturing mostly Macbooks. It similarly produces goods for the likes of HP Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google.
Apple supplier Quanta targeted in ransomware hack 21 April 2021 - 17:09 Kartikay Mehrotra Picture: 123RF/WELCOMIA As Apple was revealing its newest line of iPads and flashy new iMacs on Tuesday, one of its primary suppliers was enduring a ransomware attack from a Russian operator claiming to have stolen blueprints of the US company’s latest products.
The ransomware group REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, published a blog on its darkweb site on Tuesday in which it claimed to have infiltrated the computer network of Quanta Computer. The Taiwan-based company is a key supplier to Apple, manufacturing mostly Macbooks. It similarly produces goods for the likes of HP, Facebook and Alphabet’s Google.