Thousands of sensitive documents stolen in Swedish data hack

guest · Oct 28, 2020

Thousands of sensitive documents stolen in Swedish data hack
October 27, 2020
https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/27/thousands-of-sensitive-documents-stolen-in-swedish-data-hack

Thousands of sensitive documents have been compromised in a data hack on the Swedish security firm Gunnebo.

The group admitted on Tuesday it had been the victim of a theft operation, which may have affected the security of the Swedish parliament and European banks.
A spokesperson for Gunnebo told Euronews the incident was "extremely regrettable".
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The intrusion had been reported to the Swedish internal intelligence and anti-terrorism agency (Säpo) after external IT forensics concluded the attack was "well organised".

"We can only speculate about the purpose of the attack, but as it cannot be excluded that it was an attempt at industrial espionage," Stefan Syrén, CEO of the Gunnebo group, said on 25 August.
Gunnebo specialises in secure access portals and operates all over the world with clients including nuclear power stations, hospitals, and airports.

The company also denied media reports that they were not aware that data had been copied in the intrusion.
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What was hacked?
In August, Gunnebo's IT department established that an "unauthorised party" had tried to gain access to the company's servers.

According to the daily Dagens Nyheter, a total of 19 gigabytes of information and some 38,000 files were stolen.
This included details about the protection of the Swedish parliament, plans for the safes of at least two German banks, and confidential information of the Swedish tax agency's new office in Stockholm.

Gunnebo then says that "criminals" decided to upload a certain part of the stolen data on the so-called "Darknet" and are continuing to analyse this dataset.

"Of course, we have been aware that files that originate from us are available on Darknet, and we naturally regret that this is the case," said Syrén.
"Unfortunately, this is exactly how computer criminals work.
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guest · Oct 28, 2020

Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo
October 28, 2020
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10...anies-leaked-in-hack-of-swedish-firm-gunnebo/

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems.

Earlier this week, Swedish news agency Dagens Nyheter confirmed that hackers recently published online at least 38,000 documents stolen from Gunnebo’s network. Linus Larsson, the journalist who broke the story, says the hacked material was uploaded to a public server during the second half of September, and it is not known how many people may have gained access to it.
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“The harsh and unfortunate reality is the security of a number of security companies is ****,” Arena said. “Most companies tend to have a lack of ongoing and up to date understanding of the threat actors they face.”
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