The threat actors demand $70m, but it is wholly unclear the quantity of data stolen from the chip manufacturer.
Just under five years ago, chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, otherwise known as TSMC, was hit by the WannaCry ransomware, thereby crippling production and shutting down plants. Now, the company has purportedly had its data stolen in a new attack thanks to an affiliate of the ransomware gang LockBit, the same ransomware group behind the Foxconn attack around this time last year.
Overnight, threat actors affiliated with LockBit posted a $70 million ransom for TSMC’s data to be deleted or downloaded. According to reports from researchers at vxunderground, this attack comes from the National Hazard Group, a “sub-clique of Lockbit ransomware group.” The below screenshot from vxunderground shows what is believed to be the threat actors in a TSMC HP Enterprise storage server to prove they are in TSMC’s systems.
