![]() ![]() “More recently, publicly reported chat logs suggest that a key player in CONTI operations may have intended to provide support for government projects.” “Mandiant has previously assessed that at least a portion of actors involved with CONTI ransomware are based in Russia and some criminals operating from there already have documented ties with Russian intelligence apparatus,” said Kimberly Goody, director of financial crime analysis at cybersecurity firm Mandiant. The FBI warning came after Conti ransomware was used to attack Ireland’s Health Service Executive, which caused some medical procedures to be canceled and a COVID-19 vaccine portal to shut down - and could ultimately cost the system more than $112 million, an Irish news outlet reported this week. health care and first-responder networks in the previous year. In May 2021 the FBI warned that Conti was involved in at least 16 ransomware attacks targeting U.S. It adds that Conti does “not ally with any government and we condemn the ongoing war,” saying that the threat to use its “full capacity to deliver retaliatory measures” remains as a response to “Western warmongering and the American threats to use cyber warfare against the citizens of Russian Federation.” It was later modified.Īfter the initial post got some attention, the message posted to the site was modified to exclude the threat against critical infrastructure. Screenshot of the original message posted to Conti’s site Friday. ![]() targets between spring 2020 and spring 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI reported in September. Security researchers believe the gang to be Russia-based.Ĭonti ransomware was part of more than 400 attacks against mostly U.S. The gang said that it would use “all possible resources to strike back at the critical infrastructures” of any entity that organizes a cyberattack “or any war activities against Russia.” The message appeared Friday on the dark-web site used by ransomware group Conti to post threats and its victims’ data. ![]() #Stamos group ransomwhere full#An infamous ransomware group with potential ties to Russian intelligence and known for attacking health care providers and hundreds of other targets posted a warning Friday saying it was “officially announcing a full support of Russian government.” ![]()
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