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MOSCOW, May 23 Sneaking Leprechaun, a hacker group, has attacked more than 30 organizations from Russia and Belarus for ransom over the past year, digital risk management company Bi.Zone said.
«We discovered that over the past year, the Sneaking Leprechaun group has attacked more than 30 organizations from Russia and Belarus. Most of the victims are involved in the development and integration of software,» said Evgeny Voloshin.
Among the victims are companies from the fields of industry, finance, logistics, medicine, as well as government agencies, he added. According to experts, this group hacked servers and penetrated the infrastructure of organizations. But if in the classical scheme the attackers immediately encrypt the data and demand a ransom, then in this case the criminals acted according to a different scenario, Bi.Zone pointed out.
The attackers used vulnerabilities in outdated versions of Bitrix, Confluence and Webmin on Linux servers to gain access to the victims' infrastructure. After a successful penetration, the attackers secured themselves in the system using malicious software of their own design.
«Undetected, they manually analyzed the data and copied what they considered valuable. The criminals contacted the company and provided evidence that they had the information,» the company said.
The attackers then demanded a ransom, threatening otherwise, place the stolen goods in the public domain, the experts concluded. 20230508/khakery-1870431260.html» data-title=»An expert told which countries are most actively attacked by hackers»>