Last December, Kaspersky researchers discovered a new group targeting Russian businesses and government agencies with ransomware. Further investigation into this group’s activity suggests a connection to other groups currently targeting Russia.
Kaspersky researchers have seen overlaps not only in indicators of compromise and tools, but also tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Moreover, the infrastructure partially overlaps across attacks. The group under review has a toolkit that includes utilities such as Mimikatz, XenAllPasswordPro, PingCastle, Localtonet, resocks, AnyDesk, PsExec, and others. As the final payload, the group used the well-known ransomware LockBit 3.0 and Babuk. The researchers have dubbed the group “Crypt Ghouls”.
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Source: Kaspersky
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