- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Ukraine(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0646 · bearlyfy
UkraineWhat it is
Bearlyfy has been attributed to over 70 cyber attacks targeting Russian companies since its emergence in January 2025, employing a custom Windows ransomware strain known as GenieLocker. The group operates with dual objectives of extortion and sabotage, utilizing a modified version of PolyVice and leveraging vulnerabilities in external services and applications for initial access. Analysis reveals overlaps with PhantomCore, indicating a pro-Ukrainian interest, while Bearlyfy's attacks are characterized by minimal preparation and a focus on immediate impact through data encryption and destruction. Approximately 20% of victims reportedly pay the ransom, with demands escalating to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- Labubu
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Minimo
- Windows Remote Desktop
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de