Olympus Corporation, the Japan-based manufacturer of optical and digital camera equipment, has announced that they are investigating a cyberattack.
The company, which has an annual revenue of $5.5 billion and about 31,000 employees globally, shut down most of its EMEA networks after what is believed to be a BlackMatter ransomware attack. Currently neither the attack vector nor the ransom demand are known.
The BlackMatter group has compromised at least 40 companies since June, and it's likely that even more attacks have simply not yet been disclosed publicly. They are believed to be a successor of the DarkSide group, which disappeared soon after the Colonial Pipeline attack.
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