Schneider Electric Ransomware Crew Demands $125k Paid in Baguettes (theregister.com) 25
Schneider Electric confirmed that it is investigating a breach as a ransomware group Hellcat claims to have stolen more than 40 GB of compressed data -- and demanded the French multinational energy management company pay $125,000 in baguettes or else see its sensitive customer and operational information leaked. The Register: And yes, you read that right: payment in baguettes. As in bread. Schneider Electric declined to answer The Register's specific questions about the intrusion, including if the attackers really want $125,000 in baguettes or if they would settle for cryptocurrency.
A spokesperson, however, emailed us the following statement: "Schneider Electric is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to one of our internal project execution tracking platforms which is hosted within an isolated environment. Our Global Incident Response team has been immediately mobilized to respond to the incident.âSchneider Electric's products and services remain unaffected."
A spokesperson, however, emailed us the following statement: "Schneider Electric is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to one of our internal project execution tracking platforms which is hosted within an isolated environment. Our Global Incident Response team has been immediately mobilized to respond to the incident.âSchneider Electric's products and services remain unaffected."
They should accept the offer (Score:3)
Hackers usually try to get their payment without having to physically show up. $125k is a pretty low ask for one of these events too. I say do it... while law enforcement waits to pick them up immediately afterward.
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This is a script kiddy that has no intention of actually collecting the baguettes. It is high school level shenanigans
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Well then, it would be baguettes instead of donuts at the police station for a few days.
Overheard at the press conference (Score:4, Interesting)
Spokesperson: And that was our technical director, we are now open for questions.
(A show of hands)
Yes, did they request for plain baguettes, or toasted?
Technical director: I will answer questions of a technical nature, about the intrusion itself.
(Everybody lowers their hands)
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Maybe delivery to Gaza? Idk, but it's obviously not for personal gain as the ransom note says: "stating this breach will decrease the ransom by 50 percent".
perishable ransom (Score:2)
Fun world where hackers just want to eat.
Re:perishable ransom (Score:4, Funny)
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That's an odd wine pairing. Are we sure these ransomware folks are really French?
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Question is.. (Score:5, Funny)
Who are they blackmailing for the brie?
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Well, they've locked down R. J. Reynolds with a demand for 20 crates of unfiltered Galoise cigarettes
Should have asked for baguette *diamonds* (Score:1)
duh
Donut pay them! (Score:3)
Let them eat cake.
APC BackUPS (Score:3)
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Yeah, cause they'd totally have customer order information in their Jira system.
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Schneider Electric a huge conglomerate, They own probably a ton of things you interact with. APC is one of them. If you're an electrician, you'll probably have used Square-D stuff - they make load centers, breakers, and other things (and are extremely popular in both residential and commercial installations).
Baguettes as an aphrodisiac (Score:4, Funny)
Old joke
Over conversation in the pub one night, someone told Fred (as a prank) that french Bread was an aphrodisiac.
Next day, Fred goes to the baker and asks to buy GBP50 worth of baguettes.
The woman behind the counter says "Are you sure you want that much? By tomorrow morning it'll be as hard as nails?"
Fred answers "Great - give me GBP100 worth then !!"
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I think we just found our culprit. He's waiting for the aphrodisiac effect to kick in and just keeps assuming he hasn't yet gotten enough French bread to get the effect. Now he's turned to hacking to achieve the desired effect. Poor Fred. Not smart enough to just get a prescription for the little blue pill. Or too stubborn to give up on the French bread theory.
Long Lead Items (Score:2)
Does the information reveal how long the back orders are for equipment
operating above 250V ?
I'm hearing 1-2 years.
Oh, and if anyone bribed their way to the head of the line?
Symbionese (Score:4, Informative)
Shades of the Symbionese Liberation Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
"The SLA next demanded a ransom from the Hearsts, in the form of a food distribution program."
Calculations show (Score:2)