Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion Jaguar Land Rover hack: report

Last year, Pirates The car giant Jaguar Land Rover attackedone of the largest employers in the United Kingdom. Penetration Production stopped months ago It made a huge impact on the country’s economy. The damage was so severe that the UK Govt I decided to bail out The company made a payment of £1.5 billion (about $2 billion), and it is estimated that the hack cost the British economy $2.5 billion.

For months, there was only speculation about who did it. Now, citing people close to the investigation, The New York Times reports The hackers behind the hack were Russian, although it remains unclear whether they were working directly for Vladimir Putin’s government, or were merely criminals, or something in between, such as criminals working with the tacit approval of the government.

Microsoft had been tracking the Russian hacking group and reported information about the hackers’ identities to JLR, the Times reported. But the sources also said that the FBI, Britain’s National Crime Agency, the National Cyber ​​Security Centre, Google’s Mandiant unit and Palo Alto Networks all worked on the investigation.

In a rare but unprecedented occurrence in the world of cybersecurity, it turns out that a Russian hacking group was not the only one to have infiltrated some of JPL’s networks. The Times reported that a Jordanian hacker named Ray had also hacked the site.