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Cybersecurity entrepreneur Shira Kaplan on blackmailing the rail vehicle manufacturer: “The Stadler case shows just how professional the perpetrators are now.”
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The blackmailers showed the first information on Twitter about all the data that they claim to have captured from Spuhler. Cyber expert Kaplan said: “During the corona crisis, cyberattacks increased sixfold worldwide.”
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![Stadler Rail patron Peter Spuhler immediately filed criminal charges against the extortionists.]()
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Stadler Rail patron Peter Spuhler immediately filed criminal charges against the extortionists.
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Train manufacturer Stadler Rail was attacked by hackers at the beginning of the month. There was an attack with malware, the Thurgau company said at the time. It was very likely that data had been stolen. Stadler spoke of a “data outflow of dimensions not yet exactly known”.
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The company has initiated security measures and involved the authorities. Stadler’s internal surveillance services had identified the attack. “A professional attack can be assumed,” wrote the company.
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Cyber expert about Stadler blackmail
Shira Kaplan (36) also sees it that way. The Israeli cyber risk expert founded her own company in Zurich four years ago, advises the WEF. “The Stadler case shows how professional the perpetrators are now. During the corona crisis, cyberattacks increased sixfold worldwide, »Kaplan told BLICK.
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The unknown perpetrators tried to blackmail Stadler by demanding “large amounts of money” and to put pressure on the possible publication of data. They wanted to harm the company and its employees, it said.
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Now the criminals have carried out their threat. And published the first documents on an anonymous Twitter account, as the “Tages-Anzeiger” reports. Your request: $ 6 million in Bitcoin! No surprise for Kaplan: “Bitcoin cannot be tracked.” This means that the perpetrators launder the money in the anonymity of the network.
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Does patron Peter Spuhler (61) respond to the request? “Stadler is and was never willing to make payments to the extortionists and did not enter into the negotiations,” the company writes.
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That is why the perpetrators have now published Stadler’s internal documents “to harm Stadler and his employees”. It should be confidential documents and data. Stadler Rail has filed a criminal complaint.
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For Kaplan, Switzerland is a lucrative target for cybercriminals: “A lot of money can be fetched from companies and individuals here.”
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