Epic Video games stated they discovered zero proof of a cyberattack or information theft after the Mogilevich extortion group claimed to have breached the corporate’s servers.
“We’re investigating however there may be at present zero proof that these claims are authentic,” Epic Video games informed BleepingComputer in an announcement.
“Mogilievich has not contacted Epic or supplied any proof of the veracity of those allegations.”
Epic Video games informed BleepingComputer that they instantly started investigating the incident after seeing a screenshot of the darkish net web page selling the breach and tried to contact the risk actor.
Nevertheless, the corporate informed us they by no means obtained a response from Mogilevich, and the one info they’d was from a tweet I posted yesterday.
Yesterday, after information of the alleged breach spread through Twitter, I spoke to a consultant of the Mogilevich extortion group, asking if they might share proof of the assault.
Supply: BleepingComputer
The risk actors informed BleepingComputer that they have been promoting the stolen information for $15,000 however would solely share samples with those that confirmed “proof of funds,” that means that they’d demonstrated that they’d the accessible cryptocurrency belongings to make the acquisition.
They claimed they shared samples of this allegedly stolen information with three individuals who confirmed proof of funds.
Who’s Mogilevich
Mogilevich is a comparatively new extortion group that claims to have breached quite a few organizations, together with Eire’s Division of International Affairs and Infinity USA.
Nevertheless, not like different extortion teams, Mogilevich doesn’t share samples of stolen information and declare solely to be promoting on to confirmed consumers.
This lack of proof has led many safety researchers whom BleepingComputer has spoken with to consider that the risk actors are trying to rip-off consumers with faux information.
The risk actors additionally declare to be a Ransomware-as-a-Service operation, recruiting different hackers (associates) to work with them in trade for a working ransomware encryptor and negotiation panel. When an affiliate conducts an assault and a ransom is paid, the affiliate and operators break up the cost primarily based on negotiated percentages.
Nevertheless, no samples of any ransomware encryptor have been discovered presently linking them to encryption assaults.
