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Technique note · T1657

Financial Theft

Adversaries may steal monetary resources from targets through extortion, social engineering, technical theft, or other methods aimed at their own financial gain at the expense of the availability of these resources for victims. Financial theft is the ultimate objective of several popular campaign types including extortion by ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and fraud, "pig butchering," bank hacking, and exploiting cryptocurrency networks. Adversaries may Compromise Accounts to conduct unauthorized transfers of funds. In the case of business email compromise or email fraud, an adversary may utilize Impersonation of a trusted entity. Once the social engineering is successful, victims can be deceived into sending money to financial accounts controlled by an adversary. This creates the potential for multiple victims (i.e., compromised accounts as well as the ultimate monetary loss) in incidents involving financial theft. Extortion by ransomware may occur, for example, when an adversary demands payment from a victim after Data Encrypted for Impact and Exfiltration of data, followed by threatening to leak sensitive data to the public unless payment is made to the adversary. Adversaries may use dedicated leak sites to distribute victim data. Due to the potentially immense business impact of financial theft, an adversary may abuse the possibility of financial theft and seeking monetary gain to divert attention from their true goals such as Data Destruction and business disruption.

ATT&CK T1657 platforms — Status Active Version 20.1

Adversaries may steal monetary resources from targets through extortion, social engineering, technical theft, or other methods aimed at their own financial gain at the expense of the availability of these resources for victims. Financial theft is the ultimate objective of several popular campaign types including extortion by ransomware,1 business email compromise (BEC) and fraud,2 "pig butchering,"3 bank hacking,4 and exploiting cryptocurrency networks.5 Adversaries may Compromise Accounts to conduct unauthorized transfers of funds.6 In the case of business email compromise or email fraud, an adversary may utilize Impersonation of a trusted entity. Once the social engineering is successful, victims can be deceived into sending money to financial accounts controlled by an adversary.7 This creates the potential for multiple victims (i.e., compromised accounts as well as the ultimate monetary loss) in incidents involving financial theft.8 Extortion by ransomware may occur, for example, when an adversary demands payment from a victim after Data Encrypted for Impact9 and Exfiltration of data, followed by threatening to leak sensitive data to the public unless payment is made to the adversary.10 Adversaries may use dedicated leak sites to distribute victim data.11 Due to the potentially immense business impact of financial theft, an adversary may abuse the possibility of financial theft and seeking monetary gain to divert attention from their true goals such as Data Destruction and business disruption.12

  1. FBI-ransomware
  2. FBI-BEC
  3. wired-pig butchering
  4. DOJ-DPRK Heist
  5. BBC-Ronin
  6. Internet crime report 2022
  7. FBI-BEC
  8. VEC
  9. NYT-Colonial
  10. Mandiant-leaks
  11. Crowdstrike-leaks
  12. AP-NotPetya

Groups using this technique

GroupNameCountry
grp_g1049AppleJeusDPRK
grp_g1050Water Galura—
grp_g0083SilverTerrier—
grp_g1056TeamPCP—
grp_g1026Malteiro—
grp_g1024Akira—
grp_g1021Cinnamon TempestChina
grp_g1051Medusa Group—
grp_g1057ShinyHunters—
grp_g1015Scattered Spider—
grp_g1040Play—
grp_g1053Storm-0501—
grp_g1052Contagious Interview—
grp_g1055VOID MANTICORE—
grp_g1058The Gentlemen—
grp_g0082APT38DPRK
grp_g1032INC Ransom—
grp_g0094KimsukyDPRK
grp_g1016FIN13—

Claims

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