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Ransomware assault costs $50 million on computer giant Acer
Revil ransomware has attacked computer company Acer, and the threat actors are requesting the $50,000,000,000 ransom, which is the highest known ransom to date.
Acer is a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer of computers, electronics, and monitors. About 7,000 people work for Acer, which had revenue of $7.8 billion in 2019.
The ransomware gang said yesterday that they have infiltrated Acer and posted some screenshots of purportedly stolen files as evidence on their data leak website.
These documents, which contain financial spreadsheets, bank balances, and bank correspondence, were exposed through the use of leaked photos.
In response to BleepingComputer’s queries, Acer said that they “reported recent odd situations” to pertinent LEAs and DPAs but did not give a clear statement as to whether they had been the victim of a REvil ransomware assault.
Below is a link to their full response:
“Acer regularly checks its IT infrastructure, and the majority of hacks are successfully thwarted. Companies like ours are frequently targeted, and we have recently witnessed strange circumstances that we have notified to the appropriate law enforcement and data protection agencies in several different countries.”
“To ensure company continuity and information integrity, we have been steadily improving our cybersecurity infrastructure. We strongly advise all businesses and organisations to follow cyber security best practises and guidelines and to keep an eye out for any unusual network behaviour.” – Acer.
Acer responded to queries for additional information by saying “there is an ongoing investigation and for the sake of security, we are unable to comment on details.”
Known highest ransom demand
Following the release of our article, LegMagIT’s Valery Marchive found the REvil ransomware sample that was utilised in the Acer assault and demanded a huge $50 million ransom.
Soon after, BleepingComputer discovered the sample and is able to corroborate that it is from the onslaught on Acer based on the ransom message and the victim’s chat with the attackers.
Beginning on March 14th, the victim began speaking with REvil, who displayed disbelief at the victim’s enormous $50 million demand.
The REvil representative offered a link to the Acer data leak page later on in the chat, which was still under wraps at the moment.
A 20% discount was also provided by the assailants if payment was completed by this past Wednesday. The ransomware group would deliver a decryptor, a vulnerability report, and the destruction of the files they had stolen in exchange.
The REvil operation once issued a mysterious warning to Acer, telling them “not not repeat the fate of the SolarWind.”
The previous greatest known ransom was the $30 million extortion from the Dairy Farm cyberattack, which was also perpetrated by REvil. REvil’s 50 million demand is the largest known ransom to date.
Possibly exploited Microsoft Exchange
According to Vitali Kremez of BleepingComputer, the Revil gang recently targeted a Microsoft Exchange server on the Acer domain, which Advanced Intel’s Andariel cyberintelligence technology was able to identify.
Kremez told BleepingComputer that “Advanced Intel’s Andariel cyberintelligence technology noticed that one specific REvil affiliate pursued Microsoft Exchange weaponization.”
Although they are a smaller operation with fewer victims, the threat actors behind the DearCry ransomware have already deployed their ransomware via the ProxyLogon vulnerability.
If the current Microsoft Exchange flaws were utilised by REvil to steal data or encrypt devices, it would mark the first time one of the ransomware operations that targets large-scale threats used this kind of attack.
NVIDIA has released security upgrades to fix ten more bugs impacting the NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU) management software in addition to six security holes discovered in Windows and Linux GPU display drivers.
The flaws make Windows and Linux systems vulnerable to attacks that could cause a denial of service, privilege escalation, data manipulation, or information disclosure.
Because all of these security flaws need local user access, potential attackers must first get access to susceptible targets via a different attack method.
Patching of eleven high severity vulnerabilities
Attackers can simply escalate privileges to obtain permissions above those provided by the OS after successfully exploiting one of the vulnerabilities fixed today.
Denial-of-service attacks or gaining access to otherwise inaccessible information can also be used to temporarily disable workstations running vulnerable drivers or software.
With the exception of the security flaws identified as CVE-2021-1052, CVE-2021-1053, and CVE-2021-1056 affecting the Linux GPU Display Driver for Tesla GPUs, which will start receiving an updated driver version on January 18, 2021, NVIDIA has patched all impacted software products and platforms.
The flaws have CVSS V3 base ratings ranging from 5.3 to 8.4, and NVIDIA has classified 11 of them as high-risk.
The risk assessment “is based on an average of risk across a broad set of deployed systems and may not represent the true risk of your local installation,” according to NVIDIA’s security alert.
To accurately assess the risk these vulnerabilities represent to your particular system configuration, the business further suggests speaking with an IT or security specialist.
The January 2021 Security Bulletin is a complete list of security problems that NVIDIA patched this month.
Several driver updates are accessible from hardware vendors.
NVIDIA advises users to use the security updates offered on the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page to upgrade their GeForce, NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS, and Tesla GPU display drivers, as well as Virtual GPU Manager and guest driver software.
According to the business, certain consumers who choose not to manually fix the weaknesses might also get security upgrades bundled with Windows GPU display driver 460.84, 457.49, and 452.66 versions from their computer hardware vendors.
Users of the NVIDIA vGPU enterprise software must sign into the NVIDIA Enterprise Application Hub in order to download updates from the NVIDIA Licensing Center.
By just putting in a Razer mouse or keyboard, a Razer Synapse zero-day vulnerability that has been publicly published on Twitter enables you to take control of Windows as an administrator.
A well-known maker of computer accessories, Razer is well recognised for their gaming keyboards and mice.
The Razer Synapse programme will immediately download and start installing on a computer when a Razer device is plugged into Windows 10 or Windows 11. Users can set up macros, map buttons, and modify their gear using the software Razer Synapse.
Over 100 million people use Razer Synapse, according to Razer, who claims that number.
The plug-and-play Razer Synapse installation contains a zero-day vulnerability that, when exploited, allows users to swiftly gain SYSTEM access on a Windows system. This vulnerability was found by security researcher jonhat.
The greatest user rights in Windows, known as SYSTEM privileges, provide users the ability to run any command on the operating system. Basically, if a user has Windows’ SYSTEM capabilities, they have total control over the system and are able to install anything they want, including malicious software.
Razer had yet to respond, so yesterday jonhat revealed the zero-day vulnerability on Twitter and provided a little video explaining how the flaw operates.
Using a mouse while plugged in to gain access to the SYSTEM
We chose to test the flaw as BleepingComputer has a Razer mouse handy. We can confirm that it took us roughly two minutes to get SYSTEM rights in Windows 10 after plugging in our mouse.
It should be emphasised that this is a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability, requiring physical access to a computer and a Razer device. To exploit the problem, all you need to do is purchase a $20 Razer mouse from Amazon and plug it into a Windows 10 computer.
On one of our Windows 10 machines, we set up a temporary ‘Test’ user with ordinary, non-administrator capabilities to test this flaw.
When we connected the Razer device to Windows 10, the operating system downloaded and set up both the driver and the Razer Synapse application automatically.
The Razer installation application got SYSTEM access as a result of the RazerInstaller.exe executable being started by a Windows process with SYSTEM privileges, as demonstrated below.
The setup procedure lets you choose the folder where the Razer Synapse software will be installed when you install it. Everything goes wrong when you have the choice of where to install your software.
The “Choose a Folder” window will show up when you move your folder. When you right-click the dialogue while holding down Shift, you will be given the option to “Open PowerShell window here,” which will launch a PowerShell prompt in the folder displayed in the dialogue.
This PowerShell prompt will inherit the same rights as the process that launched it because it was run with SYSTEM permissions.
As you can see in the screenshot below, after typing the “whoami” command at the PowerShell prompt, it became clear that the console has SYSTEM capabilities, enabling us to execute whatever command we like.
According to Will Dormann, a Vulnerability Analyst at the CERT/CC, other applications installed by the Windows plug-and-play mechanism is likely to include similar flaws.
Razer will address the flaw
Razer has contacted the security researcher to let them know that they will be delivering a remedy after this zero-day issue attracted significant notice on Twitter.
Despite the fact that the vulnerability was made public, Razer also informed the researcher that he would be getting a bug bounty payment.
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