The FBI said that over the last two years, an extortion group known as the Silent Ransom Group has targeted U.S. law firms through callback phishing and social engineering tactics.
This threat outfit, also known as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, has been active since 2022. It was also responsible for BazarCall campaigns, which provided initial access to corporate networks for Ryuk and Conti ransomware assaults.
Following Conti’s shutdown in March 2022, the threat actors broke away from the cybercrime syndicate and created their own operation known as the Silent Ransom Group.
In recent attacks, SRG mimics the targets’ IT help via email, bogus websites, and phone conversations, gaining access to their networks via social engineering tactics. This extortion group does not encrypt victims’ systems and is infamous for demanding ransoms in order to keep sensitive information stolen from hacked devices from being leaked online.
“SRG will then direct the employee to join a remote access session, either through an email sent to them, or navigating to a web page. Once the employee gran
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