CommScope investigates a ransomware attack on its servers

A network infrastructure provider based in North Carolina, USA, CommScope, has reported a cyberattack incident involving ransomware actors. The unknown culprits of this attack claimed to have leaked the company’s stolen data on the dark web.

According to a CommScope representative, the incident was discovered last March 27, with malicious actors accessing its IT servers. Upon learning of the unauthorised intrusion, the company immediately instigated an investigation and partnered with authorities to identify its scope and impact.

 

The investigation showed that CommScope lost data from the ransomware attack.

 

In a statement, CommScope’s representative said that the malicious actors claimed to have the stolen information from their network posted on a dark web forum. The company is now working with cybersecurity experts to validate the claims and review the incident’s impact as promptly as possible.

Moreover, the company said that the compromised data on the incident did not include those owned by their customers, and their usual operations were not disrupted. At an event when customers’ data were compromised to the cybersecurity issue, CommScope vowed to provide immediate alerts corresponding to their obligations and applicable laws.

In related news, the Vice Society ransomware gang adds CommScope to their leak site’s list of victims. The gang also published massive data allegedly stolen from the American network infrastructure provider, which includes over 30,000 employees’ sensitive data, passports, invoices, bank documents, and other corporate files.

Vice Society adding the company to their victims may imply that they are the culprit behind the recent attack, although this has yet to be confirmed. CommScope has also not given additional comments on the incident as of the moment.

While the company is still investigating the ransomware attack, employees who might have been impacted by it must take strong cybersecurity precautions to protect themselves from any looming security threats.

Founded in 1976, CommScope designs and builds network infrastructure products, including home networks, data centres, managed networks, video processing, and 5G networks, among others.