Consulting company Accenture attacked by Lockbit ransomware – Bits Media

Accenture has been attacked by a ransomware virus by hacker group Lockbit. The company partially repelled the attack, but hackers got access to some files and started publishing them.

As reported
edition of Le Parisien, the company managed to isolate attackers and minimize effects, however hackers gained access to some files, allegedly owned by the company. Yesterday, cybercriminals started publishing information in the public domain..

Before that, the hackers posted a message on their website, which warned, that they will start publishing data within a few hours, unless Accenture wants to buy them back. According to the hackers' statement, the "insider" in the company is responsible for the attack.

“We fully restored our affected systems from back up,” says Accenture.

Backups that work for the win. https://t.co/R5Muqftopn

— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) August 11, 2021

Seems to be, Accenture refused to pay ransom to hackers:

“Through our controls and security protocols, we have identified unusual activity in one of our environments.. We stopped it immediately and isolated the compromised servers.. We have completely restored compromised systems from a backup. This did not affect Accenture or our customers' systems in any way. ".

Lockbit hackers published 2384 file. This indicates that, what is Accenture, probably, made no attempts to acquire stolen data. It is not clear, how confidential these files are.

According to
Kaspersky Lab, the LockBit group works from the end 2019 years and is known for, what uses targeted attacks, that can spread across networks without direct intervention. Hackers can try to gain access using brute force methods to crack weak passwords. Then the malware steals the data.

According to BeforeCrypt statistics, the size of the average buyback in BTC, which usually requires Lockbit, is about $ 33,000. However, the amount can be much higher for large firms.. Le Parisien reports with reference to Cyble startup, attackers stated, what was stolen from Accenture 6 TB of data and demanded a ransom of about $50 million in cryptocurrency.

Last year was a record for the amount of payments to hackers, using ransomware. but, as reported
analytical company Chainalysis, 2021 the year may even surpass the indicators 2020 of the year.