{"id":31514,"date":"2020-11-10T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31514"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:05:55","slug":"hackers-attacked-laptop-maker-compal-and-demanded-1100-btc-in-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-attacked-laptop-maker-compal-and-demanded-1100-btc-in-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers attacked laptop maker Compal and demanded 1,100 BTC in ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Taiwanese laptop manufacturer Compal Electronics was hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware. For decrypting the files hackers demanded 1,100 BTC (nearly $17 million at the time of writing), according to <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/laptop-maker-compal-hit-by-ransomware-17-million-demanded\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Bleeping Computer<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Compal was hit over the weekend. Initially, the company said there were problems with its office information systems and suspected that the cause was a hacker attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">As Bleeping Computer later found out, Compal fell victim to the DoppelPaymer malware, known for attacks on corporate networks by gaining administrator privileges and using them to spread within Windows networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier DoppelPaymer attacked the Mexican oil company Pemex and demanded a ransom of 100 BTC to decrypt the files of municipal websites and services in the city of Torre\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to Group-IB specialists, DoppelPaymer ranked among the three most aggressive and greedy ransomware families of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese laptop manufacturer Compal Electronics was hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware. Hackers demanded 1,100 BTC to decrypt files (nearly $17 million at the time of writing), according to Bleeping Computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-31514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31516,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514\/revisions\/31516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}