Silent Ransom Group Hits US Law Firms in Escalating Extortion Attacks
The financially motivated group is combining vishing, IT impersonation, and in-person office intrusions to steal data and extort victims.
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The financially motivated group is combining vishing, IT impersonation, and in-person office intrusions to steal data and extort victims.
The FBI warned that the extortion gang Silent Ransom Group is targeting law firms and social-engineering its way into servers and databases.
The ransomware gang claims to have stolen 3.5TB of data, and told the technology distributor to pay up or suffer a data breach.
The non-ransomware extortion group has switched up tactics and victimology in a deliberate and focused campaign similar to those of other attackers focused on stealing sensitive data.
The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) cybercrime group intends to leak the stolen information in just two days, it claims; but oddly, it doesn't seek a ransom payment from its victim.
The ShinyHunters attackers are skipping selling stolen data on hacker forums in favor of using deadline-driven ransom notes for financial gain.