Egregor ransomware gang leaked data alleged stolen from Ubisoft, Crytek

The Egregor ransomware gang has hit the game developer Crytek and leaked files allegedly stolen from the systems of the gaming firm Ubisoft.

A previously unknown ransomware gang dubbed Egregor has hit the game developer Crytek and leaked files allegedly stolen from the internal network of another leading gaming firm, Ubisoft.

A few days ago, the Egregor ransomware operators posted archives containing unencrypted files allegedly stolen in two distinct attacks from the two gaming firms.

Data allegedly stolen from the two companies were published on the Egregor’s gang dark web leak site. The ransomware operators leaked 300 MB from Crytek and 20 MB from Ubisoft.

The files stolen from Crytek contained data related to the development of games like Arena of Fate and Warface, along with the company’s old Gface social gaming network.

Source ZDNet

At the time of writing the post, media outlets only confirmed the ransomware attack against Crytek, while it is not clear if Ubisoft suffered a security breach.

Files of the gaming firm were encrypted and the ransomware appended the’.CRYTEK’ extension to their filenames.

Egregor Ransomware operators also threatened to leak the source code of a popular upcoming Ubisoft game, the Watch Dogs: Legion.

Security researcher MalwareHunterTeam has attempted, without success, to warn Ubisoft for almost a year that their employees were the victims of phishing attacks.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Egregor Ransomware)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.