Richard CanonNews / Wednesday, August 5, 2020 / Categories: News, Canon General News This post may contain affiliate links(s). An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase through my link, without any additional cost to you. It helps to keep this site afloat. Thank you in advance for your support. If you like what we do here, maybe buy me a coffee. Canon hit with ransomware attack Canon can't seem to catch a break lately. The ransomware group, Maze has claimed responsibility for taking down CanonUSA as well as quite a few other of Canon USA's front facing websites. They claim to have also stolen 10TB of data from Canon USA's servers. The websites in question are; www.canonusa.com www.canonbroadcast.com b2cweb.usa.canon.com canondv.com canobeam.com canoneos.com bjc8200.com canonhdec.com bjc8500.com usa.canon.com imagerunner.com multispot.com canoncamerashop.com canoncctv.com canonhelp.com bjc-8500.com canonbroadcast.com imageland.net consumer.usa.canon.com bjc-8200.com bjc3000.com downloadlibrary.usa.canon.com www.cusa.canon.com www.canondv.com This seems to have affected Canon USA only as Canon Global, and other sites are still up and running. What Maze is and does is explained by BleepingComputer; Maze is an enterprise-targeting human-operated ransomware that compromises and stealthily spreads laterally through a network until it gains access to an administrator account and the system's Windows domain controller. During this process, Maze will steal unencrypted files from servers and backups and upload them to the threat actor's servers. Once they have harvested the network of anything of value and gain access to a Windows domain controller, Maze will deploy the ransomware throughout the network to encrypt all of the devices. Maze has stated that they have nothing to do with the image.canon outage that occurred last week and seems to be unrelated. It's not clear if this attack has spread beyond Canon USA or into more of their global operations. More links BleepingComputers Richard CanonNewsRichard CanonNews Richard has been using Canon cameras since the 1990s, with his first being the now legendary EOS-3. Since then, Richard has continued to use Canon cameras and now focuses mostly on infrared photography. Richard is the founder and editor of CanonNews since 2017, and has worked as a writer on CanonRumors and other websites in the past. Other posts by Richard CanonNews Contact author Facebook page Print Tags: Canon Please login or register to post comments.