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Threat actors masquerading as cybersecurity researchers are approaching victims of the Royal<\/a> and Akira<\/a> ransomware gangs, offering to delete files the groups have stolen \u2013 for a price.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether the fraudulent offers of help \u2013 described as a follow-on extortion campaign \u2013 are being made by the same criminals responsible for the initial ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n

What is likely, according to Arctic Wolf Labs researchers who have tracked \u201cseveral\u201d such interactions, is that a single group is carrying out the following-on extortion bids.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s common for ransomware gangs to retarget the same victims<\/a>, Arctic Wolf senior threat intelligence researchers Stefan Hostetler and Steven Campbell said they were not aware of any previous instances where a threat actor had posed as a legitimate security researcher and offered to delete data from stolen by a ransomware group.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn two cases investigated by Arctic Wolf Labs, threat actors spun a narrative of trying to help victim organizations, offering to hack into the server infrastructure of the original ransomware groups involved to delete exfiltrated data,\u201d Hostetler and Campbell said in a post outlining the campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the first case a person claiming to be from an organization called Ethical Side Group (ESG) emailed a Royal ransomware victim in early October last year claiming to have obtained access to data the gang had exfiltrated from the victim.<\/p>\n

A month later, an Akira victim received a similar communication from an entity calling itself xanonymoux.<\/p>\n

\u201cxanonymoux claimed to have compromised Akira\u2019s server infrastructure. The threat actor offered to aide in either deleting the victim\u2019s data or providing them with access to their server,\u201d the researchers said.<\/p>\n

While ESG and xanonymoux presented themselves as separate, unrelated entities, similarities between the two cases led Arctic Wolf to conclude it was likely they were linked to a common actor. Those similarities included posing as researchers, asking for payment of around 5 bitcoin (about $180,000), offering to provide proof of access to the exfiltrated data, and the use of similar phrasing in the emails sent to the victims.<\/p>\n

One logical conclusion was that actors associated with Royal and Akira were hiding behind fake entities in an attempt to retarget the gangs\u2019 previous victims. But the researchers said the complex dynamics of the ransomware ecosystem, where affiliates could be tied to more than one gang, made it difficult to prove that theory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is challenging to make sense of the tangled web of connections woven by ransomware groups, given that ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) affiliates tend to operate multiple encryption payloads over time, sometimes even deploying several at once,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best we can do as researchers is to piece together parts of the bigger picture by looking for common denominators between attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an analysis of what is called \u201cthe cybercrime gig economy\u201d<\/a>, Microsoft\u2019s threat intelligence team said tight relationships that previously linked initial entry vectors, tools, and ransomware payload choices associated with particular ransomware strains were now less obvious.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe RaaS affiliate model, which has allowed more criminals, regardless of technical expertise, to deploy ransomware built or managed by someone else, is weakening this link,\u201d Microsoft\u2019s researchers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs ransomware deployment becomes a gig economy, it has become more difficult to link the tradecraft used in a specific attack to the ransomware payload developers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hostetler and Campbell said the similar elements identified between the cases it examined suggested a common threat actor had instigated a follow-on campaign in a bid to extort organizations who were previously victims of Royal and Akira ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, it is still unclear whether the follow-on extortion cases were sanctioned by the initial ransomware groups, or whether the threat actor acted alone to garner additional funds from the victim organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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