Popovici Niu Stoica & Asociaii
losttrust listed this organization on its leak site on Sep 26, 2023.
- Listing date
- Sep 26, 2023
- Attack date
- Sep 26, 2023
Listing text
Popovici Nițu Stoica & Asociații is one of the first incorporated professional partnerships in Romania. The Firm acts as outside counsel to a wide spectrum of legal entities, including key players in major industries, financial institutions, public authorities and investment funds. The Firm has linked its name with the creation of the essential Romanian market economy institutions after 1990, including the property funds, the stock exchanges, numerous regulatory agencies and judicial bodies. For decades, significant investment and acquisitions projects on the local market have been carried out with the legal assistance of Popovici Nițu Stoica & Asociații. The Popovici name is associated with legal service in Romania since the beginning of the last century.
About the group
losttrust posted its first listing on Sep 26, 2023 and has listed 53 organizations to date.
LostTrust is a double-extortion ransomware operation that emerged in March 2023 and publicized over 50 victims within days of launching its leak site in September 2023, believed to be a rebrand of the MetaEncryptor gang, primarily targeting manufacturing, professional services, construction, and education sectors with 71% of known victims in the US.
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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.
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- Isolate affected systems and preserve logs without deleting them.
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- 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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