{"id":99684,"date":"2019-12-12T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/maze-ransomware-demands-6-million-ransom-from-southwire"},"modified":"2019-12-12T19:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:23:14","slug":"maze-ransomware-demands-6-million-ransom-from-southwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/maze-ransomware-demands-6-million-ransom-from-southwire","title":{"rendered":"Maze Ransomware Demands $6 Million Ransom From Southwire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maze-ransomware-demands-6-million-ransom-from-southwire2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maze Ransomware operators claim responsibility for another cyber attack, this time against leading wire and cable manufacturer Southwire Company, LLC (Southwire) from Carrollton, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Southwire is one of North America\u2019s leading wire and cable makers, \u201cbuilding wire and cable, utility products, metal-clad cable, portable and electronic cord products, OEM wire products and engineered products\u201d per a press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/southwire-to-realign-business-toward-strategic-growth-300774266.html\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Maze Ransomware, a variant of Chacha Ransomware, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/maze-ransomware-says-computer-type-determines-ransom-amount\/\" target=\"_blank\">discovered<\/a> by Malwarebytes security researcher J\u00e9r\u00f4me Segura in May. The malware strain has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/maze-ransomware-says-computer-type-determines-ransom-amount\/\" target=\"_blank\">become increasingly more active<\/a> starting with May 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maze Ransomware operators claim responsibility for another cyber attack, this time against leading wire and cable manufacturer Southwire Company, LLC (Southwire) from Carrollton, Georgia. Southwire is one of North America\u2019s leading wire and cable makers, \u201cbuilding wire and cable, utility products, metal-clad cable, portable and electronic cord products, OEM wire products and engineered products\u201d per [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}