Security News > 2020 > June > Hospital-busting hacker crew may be behind ransomware attack that made Honda halt car factories, say researchers
Japanese car maker Honda has been hit by ransomware that disrupted its production of vehicles and also affected internal communications, according to reports.
Some Honda factories around the world were forced to suspend production, though output from Turkey, India, USA and Brazil locations remain on hold at the time of writing.
In the meantime, multiple researchers have suggested the culprit was Ekans, with one Milkr3am, posting screenshots on Twitter of a sample submitted to VirusTotal today that checks for the internal Honda network name of "Mds.honda.com".
If correct, this would suggest the same hacker crew targeted Honda as the one that hit a German hospital group called Fresenius some weeks ago.
Honda can confirm that a Cyber Attack has taken place on the Honda network.
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