What would you rather have: $125,000 worth of crypto or crusty French bread? It appears that one ransomware group is a bigger fan of the latter, having demanded that payment for the 40GB of compressed data it stole be paid in baguettes.
Hellcat, a newly formed ransomware group, claims it is behind the cybersecurity incident being investigated by Schneider Electric. The French multinational energy management company has confirmed a developer platform was breached.
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Hellcat is asking for $125,000 to delete the data. It said that if Schneider publicly admits to the breach, it would cut the ransom demand in half to $62,500.
However, rather than demanding the money in crypto, as is the norm, Hellcat is asking for it to be paid in baguettes.
With the average price of a standard baguette in France at €1.07, or approximately $1.09, Schneider would need to hand over at least 58,715 of these long French loaves.
It’ll all go mouldy before it can be eaten. Someone wasn’t using their loaf.
Seems like that is not as anonymous.
Also they are not going to unlock encrypted data, they are going to delete it in exchange for the ransom? Why would anyone trust that?
