Americana Restaurants
snatch listed this organization on its leak site on Apr 6, 2023.
- Listing date
- Apr 6, 2023
- Attack date
- Apr 7, 2023
Listing text
Americana Restaurants is a trailblazer in the MENA region and Kazakhstan’s Out of Home Dining industry, and among the world’s leading operators of QSR and casual dining restaurants. With a diverse portfolio of iconic global brands and a dominant regional footprint, we have delivered consistent
About the group
snatch posted its first listing on Nov 29, 2021 and has listed 142 organizations to date.
Snatch is a ransomware which infects victims by rebooting the PC into Safe Mode. Most of the existing security protections do not run in Safe Mode so that it the malware can act without expected countermeasures and it can encrypt as many files as it finds. It uses common packers such as UPX to hide its payload.
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What does this listing mean?
Ransomware groups move data out of the organization before encrypting systems and threaten to publish it if the ransom is not paid. This method is called double extortion.
The listing shows that the group claims to have targeted the organization. Whether the data was published is shown by the later status of the listing.
What should you do if your organization is listed on a leak site?
- Record the listing and any published sample files; do not visit the leak site from the corporate network.
- Isolate affected systems and preserve logs without deleting them.
- Determine which data left the organization; if personal data is involved, review notification obligations with your legal team.
- Make any decision about the ransom demand together with legal, management and incident response.
- Do not bring systems back online before the attacker’s entry point is closed.
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