{"id":5398,"date":"2021-09-14T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:57:54","slug":"olympus-experiences-disrupts-due-to-potential-blackmatter-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/olympus-experiences-disrupts-due-to-potential-blackmatter-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus experiences disrupts due to potential BlackMatter Ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5398\" class=\"elementor elementor-5398\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cee692 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cee692\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31771eb\" data-id=\"31771eb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-031f4a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"031f4a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On the 11<sup>th<\/sup> of September 2021, Olympus released a statement detailing they are currently investigating some suspicious activity. Olympus also stated that they had \u201cimmediately mobilized a specialized response team including forensics experts, and we are currently working with the highest priority to resolve this issue.\u201d The statement also highlighted the fact that the attack affected areas of their EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) IT systems on September 8, 2021. And therefore, they had to \u201csuspended data transfers in the affected systems and have informed the relevant external partners.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>Telltale signs<\/strong><\/p><p>Even though Olympus have not shared any more details on the incident including which threat actors are involved, there is evidence that the threat actors who are responsible for the incident are BlackMatter as a copy of the ransomware note has shared anonymously and included a web address to a Tor site which is known to be used by BlackMatter.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 11th of September 2021, Olympus released a statement detailing they are currently investigating some suspicious activity. Olympus also stated that they had \u201cimmediately mobilized a specialized response team including forensics experts, and we are currently working with the highest priority to resolve this issue.\u201d The statement also highlighted the fact that the attack affected areas of their EMEA<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,9,2,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-latest_vulnerabilities","category-read_article","category-ransomware_criminals","category-ce_news","category-by_country","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Picture4-2.jpg?fit=601%2C401&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5407,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions\/5407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}