Banco Promerica de la República Dominicana
ransomhouse listed this organization on its leak site on Dec 29, 2023.
- Listing date
- Dec 29, 2023
- Attack date
- Dec 8, 2023
Listing text
Promerica Group is a group of financial institutions linked through the PROMERICA FINANCIAL CORP (PFC) holding company, which is directed by a multinational team of bankers, with specific knowledge of the economic and financial activities carried out in each of the countries and in the region as a whole. Its beginnings date back to 1991, in Nicaragua, with the establishment of the National Production Bank (BANPRO), then gradually reaching the rest of Central America, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic with the establishment of commercial banks, thanks to the support of a renowned group of visionary shareholders who believe in the well-being and development of the region.
About the group
ransomhouse posted its first listing on Jun 1, 2021 and has listed 219 organizations to date.
RansomHouse is a double-extortion RaaS operation active since late 2021, attributed to the threat actor "Jolly Scorpius," targeting over 120 organizations across healthcare, finance, transportation, and government, recently upgrading to a multi-layered dual-key encryption architecture.
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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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- Do not bring systems back online before the attacker’s entry point is closed.
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