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Hacker group FIN7 - still elusive

New research from Mandiant reveals that the financially motivated hacking group FIN7 has evolved its operations and is increasingly focusing on ransomware attacks believed to include MAZE, RYUK, DARKSIDE and ALPHV ransomware. Mandiant has now been able to link previous activities by other threat clusters to FIN7. These show that FIN7 has evolved to increase the speed of its operations, broaden the scope of its targets, and possibly even expand its relationships with other ransomware operations in the cybercriminal underground. Key Findings About FIN7 Since 2020, a total of eight previously classified groups of…

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New ransomware group ALPHV – BlackCat
New ransomware group ALPHV - BlackCat Oiltanking

Gasoline supplier Oiltanking is a prominent victim of the new ransomware group ALPHV – BlackCat. Varonis Threat Labs: Targeted recruitment of partners through financially attractive offers with payouts of up to 90 percent of profits. Since the end of 2021, Varonis Threat Labs have observed increased activity by the ransomware group ALPHV (also known as BlackCat), which is actively recruiting new partners as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider, including (former) members of other gangs such as REvil, Black Matter and Dark Side. The attack on the gas station supplier Oiltanking, which affected Shell among others, goes back to BlackCat. Other destinations include larger…

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