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UPDATE: Duvel Hack

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

An update about the Duvel hack has been posted on the Stormous blog. AFAIK this hasn’t been covered by any Belgian news outlet yet. The hacker states that Duvel has read their chat messages, but has ignored them and hasn’t made an effor to negotiate. In the near future a leak of 12 GB will be posted on the blog, if Duvel doesn’t respond to the negotiations.

The full blog post:

Koffie Beyers and Primoglass Hacked

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After the news broke that Duvel was hacked on Wednesday, 2 other Belgian companies also came forward. Primoglass on Thursday and Koffie Beyers today (Friday). Primoglass will probably not pay the ransom and is getting its production line back online. Koffie Beyers is located only 3 km away from Duvel. The Antwerp police is looking if there is a connection between the two cases. It’s not yet clear which hacker group is responsible for the attack.

Duvel Brewery Hacked

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On Wednesday 6 march at 1:30 Duvel Moortgat detected a ransomware attack on their infrastructure. The well known brewery makes beers adored by many Belgians such as Duvel, Vedet and Chouffe. After the incident was reported, they had decided to stop their operations in all Belgian sites as well as the site in Kansas City USA.

Today (07/03/2024), a day later it was revealed that the pro-Russian hacker group Stormous was behind the attack. They have presumably got a hold of 88 Gigabytes of data from the company that they plan to release on their dark web blog if the ransom doesn’t get paid in 17 days time. Currently it’s unknown to the public how much money the hackers are asking for and if Duvel is going to pay up. If we may believe Stormous, their biggest ransom payment ever received was $1,000,000, however hacker groups are notoriously known for boasting and exagerating online about how great they are. So take that number with a grain of salt…