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The parent company of a private defence contractor in India has been compromised by the Windows Alphv ransomware (aka BlackCat), with the group releasing a number of documents on the dark web and claiming to have stolen 2TB of data.
Solar Industries Limited India manufactures explosives through its subsidiary Economic Explosives and is based in Nagpur in Maharashtra state.
The website of the firm has been down since Sunday evening. iTWire wrote to the company on Friday morning, asking for details about the attack but has not heard back.
Neither the defence ministry nor the company has issued any public statement as yet.
The attackers claim the data stolen includes full descriptions of engineering specifications, drawings, and audits of many weapons such as:
Rocket Pinaka MK-1 ADM-1;
Propellant Pinaka MK-1 Enhanced;
Propellant Pinaka MK-2 Guided;
Propellant Akash Booster;
Propellant RTRS;
Propellant Astra MK-2;
Propellant PSOM-XL;
Propellant SkyRoot;
Propellant Star Booster;
Propellant HEMRL(PJ-10);
Propellant BramhMos;
Propellant A1-P(P1 & P2);
Warhead: Konkur, Invar, ATGM MK-2, MPBX Blocks;
Mines: Vibhav, Vishal, Adrashy; and
Bomb: PGB 450, GP 250
According to India’s Hindustan Times newspaper, EEL has signed a deal with the defence ministry to supply a million multi-mode hand grenades to the army. EEL is also manufacturing enhanced range Pinaka rockets which have been developed by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation.
According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Alphv was first observed in late 2021. It is a ransomware-as-a-service operation and is related to other variants like BlackMatter and Darkside.
The ACSC said Alphv, which is also known as Noberus, has increased its activity last year and added features to prevent its being discovered by intrusion-detection systems.
The group also claimed that it had stolen:
Personal information about the…..
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