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Related Families: ALPHV/BlackCat
Verticals Targeted: Construction, IT, Legal Services, Retail, Healthcare, Transportation, Telecommunications, Hospitality, Finance, Real Estate, Manufacturing

Executive Summary

Cicada3301 is a new ransomware as a service (RaaS) that uses sophisticated TTPs to target vulnerabilities within network infrastructures to deploy its ransomware attacks.

Verticals Targeted: Critical Infrastructure, Energy, Oil & Gas

Executive Summary

ALPHV recently claimed responsibility for a cybersecurity incident targeting Canada's Trans-Northern Pipelines.

Related Families: RedLine, Chaos, Monster, Electron Bot, AXLocker, RapperBot, ALPHV/BlackCat, Electron Bot
Verticals Targeted: Gaming

Executive Summary

This report is part of PolySwarm’s 2022 Recap series. This edition provides an overview of the 2022 gaming threat landscape.

Key Takeaways

Background

In our PolySwarm 2021 Year in Review, we made several predictions for this year, including that BlackCat ransomware would become more prevalent, due to its sophistication. BlackCat ransomware is ransomware as a service (RaaS), which was recently linked to the