The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang utilizing faux ransom notes despatched to U.S. company executives.
The faux ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity firm GuidePoint Safety, declare that hackers have gained entry to a company’s community to steal delicate knowledge, and threaten to publish the stolen knowledge until a ransom demand is paid.
The scammers are demanding between $250,000 and $500,000, in accordance with the FBI, which says the letter features a QR code linked to a Bitcoin pockets. The notes have a return deal with to an workplace constructing in Boston, Massachusetts, and declare to be from the BianLian ransomware gang.
The Russia-linked BianLian gang was the topic of a CISA alert in November final 12 months, which warned that the group had focused a number of U.S. important infrastructure sectors since June 2022.
It’s not identified what number of people have been focused by this rip-off, and the FBI hasn’t named any identified victims. Cybersecurity agency Arctic Wolf reviews that the letters have primarily been despatched to executives within the U.S. healthcare sector. Arctic Wolf CISO Adam Marrè instructed DailyTech that the corporate is conscious of no less than 20 organizations which have acquired these extortion letters.
The FBI says it has not recognized any connections between the people sending the ransom notes and BianLian.
