CENTRAL BANK OF GAMBIA HACKED 2 TB OF CRITICAL DATA WAS STOLEN
alphv listed this organization on its leak site on Jul 26, 2023.
- Listing date
- Jul 26, 2023
- Attack date
- Nov 8, 2022
Listing text
!!!UPDATE!!! You can download some of the data at the link below (TOR). We are currently negotiating the sale of the rest of the data, if you want to participate in the auction and become a buyer of financial and personal data CBGM can write to this e-mail: [email protected] Bidding for the sale of data will end on December 7. DATA LINK: http://ra4uys2f4pslov55oj23ckudpbmovj7brrqqnzwu25ux5ul62crbkryd.onion/CBG/ HTTPS://CBG.GM CBG.GM is the central bank of The Gambia. Its name is abbreviated to CBG. The bank is located in Banjul and was established in 1971. The mandate of the Central Bank of The Gambia in accordance with the CBG Act 2005 is as follows: . Achieve and maintain price stability; . Promote and maintain the stability of the currency of The Gambia; . Direct and regulate the financial, insurance, banking and currency system in the interest of the economic development of The Gambia; and . Encourage and promote sustainable economic development and the efficient utilization of the resources of The Gambia through the effective and efficient operation of a financial system.
About the group
alphv posted its first listing on Sep 9, 2021 and has listed 731 organizations to date.
The operators of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware began their activity in December 2021, making posts on Dark Web forums to promote their affiliate program, offering other actors the opportunity to engage in a 'new type of ransomware family' developed from scratch using the Rust programming language. Some clear evidence indicates that the actors behind this new ransomware are not new to cybercrime, and there were links to other affiliate programs such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and REvil. (After several attacks against large companies, these groups faced pressure and arrests, necessitating the termination of their operations). As a security measure, the operators of ALPHV implemented the requirement for the execution of the ransomware payload by providing an 'access token,' which is supplied by the owners of the Ransomware-as-a-Service to the affiliate. This token is added to the victim's ransom note so that they can contact the threat actor responsible for encrypting the data. ALPHV affiliates employ double and triple extortion techniques, meaning the publication of the company's name on leak sites, threats of data leakage, and lastly, threats of DDoS attacks against the organization.
Learning center
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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