In response to claims from a cybercrime group, home security firm Ring says it has no evidence that it fell victim to a ransomware attack.
Founded in 2013 and acquired by Amazon in 2018, Ring started with a smart doorbell and later expanded its portfolio with an alarm system and other smart home security products.
On Monday, the cyber gang behind the Alphv ransomware added a post to its leaks site alleging they had breached Ring and threatening to release data allegedly stolen from the company.
The entry does not provide details on the amount or type of data that might have been compromised.
“There is always an option to allow us to filter your data,” the entry says.
responding to a safety week investigation, Ring denied being the victim of a ransomware attack.
“We currently have no indication that Ring has experienced a ransomware event,” Ring said.
Also tracked as BlackCat and Noberus and written in the Rust programming language, the Alphv ransomware family was first spotted in November 2021, but its operators are likely linked to the previously known cybercrime network behind the Darkside/Darkside ransomware. Blackmatter.
Operating under the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) business model, the group typically collects and extracts data from infected systems and then uses it to pressure victims into paying a ransom.
In July 2022, shortly after creating a dedicated breach site to lobby one of its victims, the group created a searchable database so that employees and customers of victim organizations could search for their potentially compromised data.
In some cases, the group was also seen launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against victims and harassing their customers, employees and partners, to further pressure them to pay up. Alphv ransomware operators have breached more than 100 organizations to date.
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