Security News > 2020 > April > Ransomware scumbags leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX documents after contractor refuses to pay
Internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world have been stolen from an industrial contractor and leaked online.
The sensitive documents include details of Lockheed-Martin-designed military equipment - such as the specifications for an antenna in an anti-mortar defense system - according to a Register source who alerted us to the blueprints.
When the company failed to pay the ransom by their March deadline, the gang - which tends to demand hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to restore encrypted files - uploaded a selection of the documents to a website that remains online and publicly accessible.
Visser is a manufacturing and design contractor in the US whose clients are said to include aerospace, automotive, and industrial manufacturing outfits - think Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Tesla, Boeing, Honeywell, Blue Origin, Sikorsky, Joe Gibbs Racing, the University of Colorado, the Cardiff School of Engineering, and others.
The leaked files relate to these customers, in particular Tesla, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and SpaceX. "When asked about the dump, a Lockheed Martin spokesperson told us:"We are aware of the situation with Visser Precision and are following our standard response process for potential cyber incidents related to our supply chain.