Security News > 2022 > January > Taiwanese Apple and Tesla contractor hit by Conti ransomware
Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese electronics company and a provider for Apple, Tesla, HP, and Dell, disclosed that it was the victim of a cyberattack discovered on Friday morning.
While Delta's statement did not say who was behind the attack, an undisclosed information security company found a Conti ransomware sample deployed on the company's network, as CTWANT first reported.
According to negotiations between Conti and Delta, the Conti operators claim to have encrypted 1,500 servers and 12,000 computers out of roughly 65,000 devices on Delta's network.
The Conti ransomware gang asked Delta to pay a $15 million ransom for a decryptor and stop leaking files stolen from its network.
Delta's customers can use this alternate domain while the company brings back online its main website, still down following the ransomware attack, as The Record found.
"The Conti ransomware group revealed a specific pattern part of the Delta attack leveraging Cobalt Strike with Atera for persistence as revealed by our platform adversarial visibility. Certainly, this attack is reminiscent of the REvil Quanta one affecting one of the Apple suppliers," Vitali Kremez, CEO of AdvIntel, told BleepingComputer.