RansomHouse gang claims to have stolen 450GB of data from chip maker giant AMD

The RansomHouse gang claims to have breached the Chipmaker giant AMD and stole 450 GB of data from the company in 2021.

The RansomHouse extortion gang claims to have stolen 450 GB of data from the chipmaker giant AMD in 2021 and threatens to leak it or sell it if the company will not pay the ransom.

The company has been added this week to the gang’s dark web leak site:

According to BleepingComputer, a RansomHouse partners has breached the network of AMD a year ago, but the leak site reports January 5th, 2022, as the date of the compromise.

RansomHouse launched its operation in December 2021, unlike other extortion group, the gang doesn’t encrypt data, but focuses on data theft to speed up its activity.

This means that threat actors did not infect AMD systems, but once obtained access to its networks had stolen internal data.

Allegedly stolen data includes corporate research and financial documents, but at this time the only published a few files containing information from an internal network likely collected during a reconnaissance phase.

One of the files, all_computers.csv, contains a list of over 77,000 machinese hosted on the AMD’s internal network. Another leaked file, sample_passwords.txt, includes a list of weak AMD user credentials, such as ‘password’, ‘P@ssw0rd’, and ‘amd!23.’

AMD is currently investigating the alleged security breach.

At the time of this writing the leak site includes the name of five organizations hit by the group:

SHOPRITE HOLDINGS LTD
AHS Aviation Handling Services GmbH
Dellner Couplers AB
Jefferson Credit Union
Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority

Stay tuned …

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, RansomHouse)

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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”.