Cyber Attackers Faced a Denial After Fujifilm Refused to Pay Ransom

Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm, earlier this month on Wednesday 2nd June published a short statement to reveal the illegitimate infiltration of its server by foreign parties. The unauthorized entry on 01 June was recognized by Fujifilm – which is formerly known for selling photographic films but today develops biotechnology, chemical, and other digital imaging devices. 

It re-established operations with backups and its PR systems now are fully operating in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and are back to business as usual, according to a Fujifilm-spokesperson. 

However,  information such as strains of ransomware, delivery channels, damage scale, and the ransom requested by the cyber gang has not been disclosed. The corporation has not responded to the request for comments from the Information Security Media Group. 

Chloe Messdaghi, an independent cybersecurity disruption consultant and researcher, says Fujifilm apparently “took the first responsible steps of recognizing the situation and systematically shutting all systems down to examine the attack. There may have been some hiccups and bumps, but because they had done the solid work of ensuring their data backups and restoration processes were current, they were able to decline to pay extortion and their disruption to business was minimal.”