- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Russia(medium confidence)
- Motivation
- Extortion; Financial gain
- Seen
- 2021
- Sources
- 9 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0091 · karakurt
What it is
Karakurt actors have employed a variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), creating significant challenges for defense and mitigation. Karakurt victims have not reported encryption of compromised machines or files; rather, Karakurt actors have claimed to steal data and threatened to auction it off or release it to the public unless they receive payment of the demanded ransom. Known ransom demands have ranged from $25,000 to $13,000,000 in Bitcoin, with payment deadlines typically set to expire within a week of first contact with the victim.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- Gold Tomahawk, Karakurt Lair, Karakurt Team, Mushy Scorpius
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
Targets
- Countries
- Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
- Sectors
- Energy, Entertainment, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industrial, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- 7-Zip
- AnyDesk
- Cobalt Strike
- FileZilla
- Living off the Land
- Mimikatz
- WinZip
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de