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NamesTropical Scorpius (Palo Alto)
RomCom (Palo Alto)
Void Rabisu (Trend Micro)
DEV-0978 (Microsoft)
Storm-0978 (Microsoft)
CountryRussia Russia
MotivationInformation theft and espionage, Financial gain
First seen2019
Description(Palo Alto) The most recent Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report includes observations of Cuba Ransomware impacting 33 organizations. As of July 2022, Tropical Scorpius has used Cuba Ransomware to impact 27 additional organizations across multiple vectors, such as Professional and Legal Services, State and Local Government, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics, Wholesale and Retail, Real Estate, Financial Services, Health Care, High Technology, Utilities and Energy, Construction, and Education. A total of 60 organizations were exposed by this ransomware gang on its leak site since the group first surfaced in 2019.
ObservedSectors: Construction, Education, Energy, Financial, Government, Healthcare, High-Tech, Manufacturing, Shipping and Logistics, Transportation.
Tools usedCuba, Industrial Spy, ROMCOM RAT, Underground.
Operations performedJul 2022Unattributed RomCom Threat Actor Spoofing Popular Apps Now Hits Ukrainian Militaries
<https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/10/unattributed-romcom-threat-actor-spoofing-popular-apps-now-hits-ukrainian-militaries>
Nov 2022RomCom Threat Actor Abuses KeePass and SolarWinds to Target Ukraine and Potentially the United Kingdom
<https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/11/romcom-spoofing-solarwinds-keepass>
Feb 2023Void Rabisu’s Use of RomCom Backdoor Shows a Growing Shift in Threat Actors’ Goals
<https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/e/void-rabisu-s-use-of-romcom-backdoor-shows-a-growing-shift-in-th.html>
Jun 2023Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/07/11/storm-0978-attacks-reveal-financial-and-espionage-motives/>
Jun 2023Void Rabisu Targets Female Political Leaders with New Slimmed-Down ROMCOM Variant
<https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/j/void-rabisu-targets-female-leaders-with-new-romcom-variant.html>
Jul 2023RomCom Threat Actor Suspected of Targeting Ukraine's NATO Membership Talks at the NATO Summit
<https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2023/07/romcom-targets-ukraine-nato-membership-talks-at-nato-summit>
Information<https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cuba-ransomware-tropical-scorpius/>

Last change to this card: 29 November 2023

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