Ransomware around the world

 

Everyone needs insurance. This takes various forms, from life, health, disability, and other forms. One firm in this industry is AXA S.A. This is a global firm with vast reach. A huge company of this size certainly has ample data to target. A portion of the network had been attacked with ransomware.

One May 9, 2021 AXA S.A. announced the company policy was not to pay the ransom when there would be a successful ransomware attack. At that point, the company may have created a bit more attention than intended for itself. The company, interestingly enough, was a victim of ransomware right after this. The target was one of its Asia Assistance Divisions. In this case, the division’s information technology services were adversely impacted for Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines and their data accessed. Allegedly, the Avaddon ransomware group was responsible for the successful attack. During the attack, apparently 3TB of data were exfiltrated. This included ID cards, passport, copies, customer claims, reserved agreements, denied reimbursements, payments to customers, contract and reports, customer IDs, bank account scanned papers, hospital and doctor reserved material (private investigation for fraud, and customer medical reports, including HIV, hepatitis, STD, and other illness reports).

Sometimes it is better to just remain in obscurity.