MSI announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack. The company issued a series of warnings to its customers regarding the incident. game equipment manufacturer MSI confirmed that he was a victim today cyber attacks. The company said in a brief statement on its website that the attack targeted “part of its information systems” but has since returned to normal operations.

The company advises customers to only get BIOS and firmware updates from MSI’s website, not from any other source. MSI did not elaborate, saying it “implemented security measures and took corrective action” after “detecting network anomalies” before reporting it to law enforcement.

“MSI is committed to protecting the data security and privacy of consumers, employees and partners, and will continue to strengthen its cybersecurity and governance architecture to ensure business continuity and network security in the future,” the blog post said.. is called. The letter does not specify whether the customer’s data was stolen or compromised.

Details of the cyber attack on MSI

The first signs of the cyberattack came in a report from BleepingComputer yesterday, revealing that a ransomware group called Money Message claimed to have stolen source code, a “biodevelopment platform” and private keys. The site also saw chats where the group claimed to have stolen 1.5TB of data and demanded more than four million dollars in ransom. It is unclear whether they are related or if MSI paid the ransom.

Monster is not the first hardware manufacturer to face such an attack in the recent past. Just last month, a hacker stole 160GB of data from a document server for Acer repair technicians. (60GB of Acer data was also stolen in October 2021.)

In recent years, we’ve seen Quanta, NVIDIA, and other major hardware manufacturers succumb to potential cyberattacks. It is clear that the attackers’ desire to access data from major hardware manufacturers and then potentially spread it to client computers has not gone away anytime soon.