Video / Waikato DHBBy Phil Pennington for RNZThe FBI warns Auckland company Mega.NZ is being used by ransomware attackers. The FBI said one indicator of a Conti ransomware attack was when large transfers went to Mega or pCloud servers. Hall, asked if hackers had ever used Mega's premium and very large accounts, which it charges for, said the company was not making money out of stolen data. Using cloud storage was akin to the hacker using the phone wires or local computers in an attack, Hall said. In an FBI alert issued in July, it said attackers had "transitioned from uploading and releasing stolen data on Mega to uploading the stolen data to another file sharing service: website.dropmefiles.com".

Source: New Zealand Herald June 01, 2021 02:15 UTC