{"id":245371,"date":"2026-05-13T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-claimed-by-nitrogen-ransomware-gang\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:30:10","slug":"foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-claimed-by-nitrogen-ransomware-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-claimed-by-nitrogen-ransomware-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn confirms cyberattack claimed by Nitrogen ransomware gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/electronics-giant-foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-on-north-american-factories\/\">Foxconn confirms cyberattack claimed by Nitrogen ransomware gang<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/electronics-giant-foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-on-north-american-factories\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/electronics-giant-foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-on-north-american-factories\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 08:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<p>Foxconn, the world&#8217;s largest electronics manufacturer, says some of its North American factories are now working to resume normal operations after a cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>The electronics giant has over 900,000 employees across over 240 campuses in 24 countries and reported revenues of over $260 billion in 2025. The company is ranked 28th in Fortune Global 500 and manufactures a wide range of electronic products for major tech companies worldwide, including Apple, Nvidia, Intel, and Google.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was confirmed by a Foxconn spokesperson when BleepingComputer asked the company to confirm claims by the Nitrogen ransomware operation earlier this week that they had stolen 8 TB of data and more than 11 million documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of Foxconn&#8217;s factories in North America suffered a cyberattack,&#8221; the company spokesperson told BleepingComputer in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cybersecurity team immediately activated the response mechanism and implemented multiple operational measures to ensure the continuity of production and delivery. The affected factories are currently resuming normal production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nitrogen also says on their dark web leak site that the stolen Foxconn files contain &#8220;confidential instructions, projects and drawings&#8221; from Apple, Intel, Google, Nvidia, AMD, and other Foxconn customers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Foxconn entry on Nitrogen leak site\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/u\/1109292\/2026\/Foxconn-on-Nitro-ransomware-leak-site.jpg\" width=\"558\"\/>Foxconn entry on Nitrogen leak site (BleepingComputer)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe threat actors behind the Nitrogen ransomware operation first surfaced in 2023 with a malware loader using the same name that deployed BlackCat\/ALPHV ransomware payloads.<\/p>\n<p>The cybercrime group later developed its own ransomware strain using leaked Conti 2 builder code. However, according to Coveware security researchers, &#8220;a coding mistake in the ESXi malware causes it to encrypt all the files with the wrong public key, irrevocably corrupting them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Nitrogen ransomware isn&#8217;t the most active ransomware operation, it has slowly added dozens of victims to its leak site since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/electronics-giant-foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-on-north-american-factories\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxconn confirms cyberattack claimed by Nitrogen ransomware gang https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/electronics-giant-foxconn-confirms-cyberattack-on-north-american-factories\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-13 08:49:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2026\/05\/13\/Foxconn-headpic.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,32],"class_list":["post-245371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245373,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245371\/revisions\/245373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}