The law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, or gsmlaw.com for short, experienced a ransomware attack that apparently involved the appropriately named REvil malware
Current Affairs : A New York media and amusement law office that speaks to famous people like entertainer Priyanka Chopra, vocalists Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen, was assaulted by programmer who took its customers information, said a media report.
The information taken incorporates contracts, nondisclosure understandings, telephone numbers, and email locations, and “individual correspondence “, reports Variety.
The law office Grubman Shire Meiselas and Sacks, or gsmlaw.com for short, encountered a ransomware assault that evidently included the properly named REvil malware.
Different VIPs whose delicate individual information has been hacked are Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Jessica Simpson, Naomi Campbell, Robert De Niro, Sofia Vergara, Spike Lee, the Osbournes (Ozzy, Sharon and Kelly), and a few more.
Agents for the law office didn’t give remark and their site gsmlaw.com was successfully disconnected, showing just its logo.
What’s more, top organizations on the association’s customer list incorporate Discovery, EMI Music Group, Facebook, HBO, Imax, MTV, NBA Entertainment, Playboy Enterprises, Samsung Electronics, Sony Corp. Spotify, Tribeca Film Festival, Universal Music Group and Vice Media Group, among others.
As indicated by worldwide cybersecurity firm Sophos, instead of basically thumping the law office down and out briefly, the ransomware convicts have taken individual information from a clothing rundown of VIP customers.
Aditi Mehta 