Luxembourg Energy Companies (Encevo)Struggling With Alleged Ransomware Attack, Data Breach
Encevo is owned by the government of Luxembourg and several other companies, including China Southern Power Grid International.
Creos runs the country’s electricity and gas network infrastructure, while Enovos is Luxembourg’s main supplier.
Creos confirmed in a statement last week that its phone lines were down
The company declined to elaborate further on Monday.
Encevo Group wrote in a July 28 press release that a certain amount of data was exfiltrated from computer systems or made inaccessible by hackers.
The group is currently making every effort to analyze the hacked data.
For the moment, the Encevo Group doesn’t have all the information necessary to personally inform each person potentially concerned.
This is why we ask our customers not to contact the group’s services on this subject for the time being.
A website has been set up and will be updated as the situation evolves.
BlackCat Affirms Attack Towards Various Companies
BlackCat the ransomware group claims to have stolen 150 GB of data that they said includes contracts, passports, bills, and emails.
They threatened to leak the data on Monday but as of the afternoon, no data had been released.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity released a report on Friday with the findings of an analysis of 623 incidents in the EU between May 2021 and June 2022.
It found that 10TB of data was stolen and exfiltrated per month during ransomware attacks.
more than 60% of organizations may have paid a ransom.
Regulated BlackCat Attacks
In February, European prosecutors and cybersecurity officials began investigating a ransomware attack affecting several major oil port terminals that targeted organizations in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, including some of the largest ports in the region.
German wind farm operator Deutsche Windtechnik was crippled in April by a cyberattack.
German wind turbine maker Nordex was forced to shut down its IT systems across multiple locations and business units after it was hit by a cyberattack on March 31.
The Nordex incident followed a cyberattack on satellite communications company Viasat that caused the malfunction of 5,800 Enercon wind turbines in Germany.
