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Fintech firm hit by log4j hack refuses to pay $5 million ransom

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Dissent

Ax Sharma reports:

One of the largest Vietnamese crypto trading platforms, ONUS, recently suffered a cyber attack on its payment system running a vulnerable Log4j version.

Soon enough, threat actors approached ONUS to extort a $5 million sum and threatened to publish the customer data should ONUS refuse to comply.

After the company’s refusal to pay the ransom, threat actors put up data of nearly 2 million ONUS customers for sale on forums.

Read more at BleepingComputer.


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