Has Volvo been the victim of a ransomware attack?
Screenshots with information about a ransomware attack on Volvo are circulating in relevant forums. The previously known "Snatch" ransomware group claims the allegedly successful attack. However, the car manufacturer does not (yet) want to comment on the incident when asked.
As the IT non-fiction author Günter Born in his tech blog reports, there is speculation that Volvo Cars has been the victim of a successful cyberattack. He refers to screenshots and to a security researcher with Twitter alias "SecuNinja" (@secuninja), according to which the Snatch ransomware gang claimed to have carried out the successful ransomware attack.
However, it remains unclear whether an incident actually occurred. Ransomware attackers often brag on the darknet about screenshots of captured documents and their ransom demands. According to the Swiss news portal "Inside-IT", a spokesman for the Volvo Group would not comment on the attack, but would not deny it either.
"Snatch" is known as a cryptovirus that demands a ransom in bitcoin, and was in 2019 circulating. At that time, the malware primarily attacked Windows systems and rebooted the target computers in each case because most security solutions do not work in safe mode.
Source: borncitiy.com
