{"id":10354,"date":"2023-03-14T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=10354"},"modified":"2023-03-14T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:48:40","slug":"amazon-ring-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=10354","title":{"rendered":"Hackers threaten to leak Amazon Ring data after claiming responsibility for ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ring is everywhere nowadays. The Amazon-owned company’s doorbell-slash-security-camera products are so ubiquitous that it would be a real problem if bad actors got a hold of the data of its tens of millions of users<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enter that potential problem: the ALPHV ransomware group.<\/p>\n

As first reported<\/u><\/a> by Vice<\/em>, this hacker collective is claiming to have breached Amazon Ring and is threatening<\/u><\/a> to leak the data it has stolen.<\/p>\n

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“Ring: Security Systems,” reads a message posted on ALPHV’s website. “There’s always the option to let us leak your data.”<\/p>\n

Despite the claims by the ransomware group, Amazon Ring has denied any breach of its systems.<\/p>\n

“We currently have no indications that Ring experienced a ransomware event,” an Amazon Ring spokesperson told Mashable in an email.<\/p>\n

According to an additional statement from the company, Amazon Ring says it is aware of a third-party vendor that has been targeted in a ransomware attack. Furthermore, Vice reports that the link to its report was shared in one of Amazon’s internal Slack channels along with a warning: \u201cDo not discuss anything about this. The right security teams are engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

ALPHV is a known ransomware-as-a-service<\/u><\/a> hacker group. This basically means that instead of a malicious code going through what its programmed to do in an attack on a user, everything that ALPHV is human-driven with each step changing based on what the group finds in its ransomware campaign on a target. ALPHV typically uses a ransomware malware called Blackcat.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear exactly what data ALPHV claims to have. Amazon has said that the third-party vendor does not have access to any customer information. Last September, Amazon Ring officially enabled end-to-end encryption<\/u><\/a> of the audio and video data it uploads to the company’s cloud services. Such security measures make it much more difficult for an unauthorized party to access users’ media files.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Ring has had its fair share of privacy and security issues recently. In response to an inquiry from Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Amazon has admitted<\/u><\/a> to providing private recordings from Ring devices to law enforcement without the knowledge or consent of its users. The company did this 11 times in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ring also quietly rolled out a major security update<\/u><\/a> for its Android app in May of last year without informing its users of the issue. According to security researchers at Checkmarx, Amazon patched up a major vulnerability affecting its Android app which had the potential to expose users’ name, email, phone number, address, and recordings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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