- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Russia(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Financial crime; Financial gain
- Seen
- 2015–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0037 · 40 techniques
- Sources
- 13 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0012 · fin6
RussiaWhat it is
FIN6 is a cyber crime group that has stolen payment card data and sold it for profit on underground marketplaces. This group has aggressively targeted and compromised point of sale (PoS) systems in the hospitality and retail sectors.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- CrowdStrike
- Venom Spider, FIN6, Skeleton Spider, Skeleton Spider
- IBM X-Force
- ITG08
- Microsoft
- Camouflage Tempest, Storm-0538
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0037
- Proofpoint
- TA4557
- PwC
- White Giant
- Thales
- ATK88
- Other names
- GC01, GC02, ATK 88, badbullz, badbullzvenom, Gold Franklin, Golden Chickens, Golden Chickens 01, Golden Chickens 02, Golden Chickens01, Golden Chickens02, Magecart Group 6, SQUID COMET, TAAL, TAG-CR2, Trinity, Venom Spider, Golden Chickens
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
- ETDA / ThaiCERTRussia
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)Russia · high
Targets
- Countries
- United States
- Sectors
- Chemical, Energy, Entertainment, Financial, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Retail
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- AbaddonPOS
- AdFind
- Anchor
- BlackPOS
- Cardinal
- CmdSQL
- Cobalt Strike
- FlawedAmmyy
- FrameworkPOS
- FrameworkPoS
- Grateful POS
- GrimAgent
- JSPSPY
- Living off the Land
- LockerGoga
- Magecart
- Maze
- Meterpreter
- Mimikatz
- More_eggs
- PinchDuke
- PsExec
- Ransomware
- Ryuk
- SCRAPMINT
- TerraStealer
- Vawtrak
- Vawtrak/Neverquest
- Venomous Ivy
- Windows Credential Editor
- Windows Credentials Editor
- Xploit
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de