The Sneaking Leprechaun hacker group carried out more than 30 ransomware attacks on organizations in Russia and Belarus last year. This was reported by Bi.Zone, a digital risk management company. According to the company, most of the affected organizations are involved in software development and integration. Among the victims of the group were companies from various fields, including industry, finance, logistics, medicine and government agencies.
Experts state that Sneaking Leprechaun exploits vulnerabilities in older versions of various software such as Bitrix, Confluence and Webmin on servers running Linux. Hackers exploited these vulnerabilities to infiltrate organizations’ internal systems. Instead of immediately encrypting data and demanding ransom, as attackers usually do, the Sneaking Leprechaun behaved differently.
They kept the secret and manually analyzed the data and copied what they found valuable. The hackers then contacted the companies and provided proof that they had the copied information. The attackers then demanded a ransom, threatening to publish the information that was otherwise stolen.
Source: Ferra
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