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WIND TURBINE FIRM NORDEX HIT BY CONTI RANSOMWARE ATTACK
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LAWRENCE ABRAMS
* April 14, 2022
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The Conti ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on
wind turbine giant Nordex, which was forced to shut down IT systems and remote
access to the managed turbines earlier this month.
Nordex is one of the largest developers and manufacturers of wind turbines
globally, with more than 8,500 employees worldwide.
On April 2nd, Nordex disclosed that they had suffered a cyberattack that was
detected early and that the company had shut down its IT systems to prevent the
spread of the attack.
"The intrusion was noted in an early stage and response measures initiated
immediately in line with crisis management protocols. As a precautionary
measure, the company decided to shut down IT systems across multiple locations
and business units," explained Nordex's original press statement.
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However, BleepingComputer was told on March 31st that the company suffered a
Conti ransomware attack which caused the entire platform to go offline. Our
source further said that Nordex did not know where the attack was coming from
and was starting their investigations.
Multiple emails sent by BleepingComputer to Nordex to confirm if they suffered a
ransomware attack have remained unanswered.
Yesterday, Nordex released an updated statement explaining that they had also
disabled remote access to managed turbines to safeguard customers' assets.
They further state that their investigation shows that the attack was restricted
to their own internal systems and did not spread to customers' assets.
"In close cooperation with relevant authorities, the emergency response team of
internal and external IT experts has been performing extensive investigations
and forensic analysis," reads Nordex's update on the cyberattack.
"Preliminary results of the analysis suggest that the impact of the incident has
been limited to internal IT infrastructure. There is no indication that the
incident spread to any third-party assets or otherwise beyond Nordex’ internal
IT infrastructure"
Danish wind turbine producer Vestas suffered a ransomware attack last November
by the LockBit ransomware operation.
CONTI RANSOMWARE CLAIMS ATTACK ON NORDEX
Today, the Conti ransomware operation claimed that they were behind the attack
on Nordex.
However, the ransomware gang has not begun leaking any data, indicating that the
company may be negotiating with the threat actors or that no data was stolen
during the attack.
Conti ransomware claims attack on Nordex
Conti is an elite ransomware operation operated by a Russian hacking group known
for other notorious malware infections, including Ryuk, TrickBot, and
BazarLoader.
Conti commonly gains access to a corporate network after a device becomes
infected with the BazarLoader or TrickBot malware infections through a phishing
attack.
While spreading through a network, the threat actors will steal files and upload
them back to their servers.
This data is then used as part of double-extortion attacks to pressure victims
into paying a ransom.
The Conti gang recently suffered its own data breach after a Ukrainian
researcher published almost 170,000 internal chat conversations between the
Conti ransomware gang members and the Conti ransomware source code.
Due to the cybercrime gang's ongoing activity, the US government issued
an advisory on Conti ransomware attacks.
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