StarHub And Gigabyte’s Servers Hit By Ransomware In New Wave Of Cyberattack

Gigabyte, a Personal Computer (PC) component maker, and popular telco, StarHub are the latest victims of a cyber attack that has targeted several internal servers.

The malware had hit Gigabyte Global, compromising the company’s internal servers leaving out the system, with the Taiwan firm confirming to journal ‘United Daily News’ that its IT team noticed the breach while immediately working to restore the affected and compromised servers to be able to adequately mitigate the threat.

Despite containing the threat Gigabyte is at loss for an explanation how the breach happened with the company having being only able to announce how its Information Technology (IT) team has be able to restore the affected servers and strategies to prevent further incursions.

Even though a  hacker group who called itself ‘RansomExx’ has claimed responsibility for the attack, the motherboard vendor could only get their identity detected through a link to a dark web page that the gang uses to release its threats and negotiations for ransom to hacked companies

Gigabyte is not the only one as StarHub also has a breach of its own customer base days around July this year, with  attack having a big impact on more that 57,000 of its customers.

 According to a report StarHub published, a file was indiscriminately uploaded to a third-party dump website, with the infiltrated files containing users “identity card numbers, mobile numbers, and email addresses belonging to 57,191 individual customers that had subscribed to the Singapore-based company’s services before 2007.

StarHub’s IT team had immediately detected the attack when it located the file and activated a protocol that had the document removed from the dumpsite.

StarHub CEO Nikhil Eapen,I n a statement  while assuring customers and staffs that the incident would not repeat itself said:

“Data security customer privacy are serious matters for StarHub, and I apologize for the concern this incident may be causing out affected customers”.

The company furthermore notified the victims of the breach through an email message that it would offer six months of complimentary credit monitoring, a move that is intended to compensate them for their losses.

The recent compromise of the hardware vendors HQ is one of the many hits of the hackers that had in recent times targeted some of Taiwan’s tech companies, including Acer, AdvanTech, Compal, Quanta, and Garmin.