Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany
nokoyawa listed this organization on its leak site on Aug 3, 2023.
- Listing date
- Aug 3, 2023
- Attack date
- Aug 3, 2023
Listing text
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers 14 counties in Eastern New York including the south west corner of a 15th county. Its Mother Church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the city of Albany.
About the group
nokoyawa posted its first listing on Dec 9, 2022 and has listed 36 organizations to date.
Nokoyawa is a double-extortion ransomware group that launched a RaaS program in 2022 (operated by threat actor "farnetwork"), primarily targeting businesses in South America across healthcare, financial services, government, and manufacturing, gaining significant attention in 2023 for exploiting a Windows CLFS zero-day (CVE-2023-28252).
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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?
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- 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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