Gigabyte, a Taiwanese manufacturer and distributor of computer hardware has been hit by the RansomEXX ransomware gang.
According to the Chinese news site United Daily News, Gigabyte confirmed they suffered a cyberattack that affected a small number of servers.
After detecting the abnormal activity on their network, they had shut down their IT systems and notified law enforcement.
The threat actors claim to have stolen 112 GB of data from an internal Gigabyte network as well as the American Megatrends Git Repository,
We have downloaded 112 GB (120,971,743,713 bytes) of your files and we are ready to PUBLISH it.
Many of them are under NDA (Intel, AMD, American Megatrends).
Leak sources: newautobom.gigabyte.intra, git.ami.com.tw and some others.
On the private data leak page, the threat actors also shared screenshots of four documents under NDA stolen during the attack.
According to research conducted by Internet security vendor Check Point, Taiwan was attacked by an average of more than 2500 cyber attacks per week in May this year, an increase of 17%, ranking fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, second only to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
