For the past two years, U.S. law firms have been the subject of callback phishing and social engineering attempts by an extortion organization called the Silent Ransom Group, the FBI warned.
This threat organization, which has been active since 2022 and is also known by the names Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, was responsible for the BazarCall campaigns that gave Ryuk and Conti ransomware assaults their first access to company networks.
After Conti was shut down in March 2022, the threat actors broke away from the cybercrime syndicate and established the Silent Ransom Group (SRG).
In recent attacks, SRG uses social engineering techniques to obtain access to the targets’ networks by posing as their IT assistance via phone calls, phony websites, and emails.
This extortion gang is well-known for requesting ransoms in order to prevent the online disclosure of private data taken from hacked devices read more about FBI warns of Luna Moth extortion attacks targeting law firms.
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