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An Australian aged-care organisation has allegedly suffered a ransomware attack after threat actors listed the company on the dark web.
The Australian Nursing Home Foundation is a provider of community care and accommodation for Chinese and south-east Asian elderly people. It owns a number of nursing homes and housing units.
The Abyss ransomware gang listed the Australian Nursing Home Foundation on its dark web leak site, claiming to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of uncompressed data.
The threat group provided little to no details of the incident other than that data will be published on 5 November.
Cyber Daily has reached out to the Australian Nursing Home Foundation for comment on the incident.
Abyss, or Abyss Locker, first appeared in March 2023, according to CyberInt. Uniquely, the group doesn’t advertise itself as a ransomware group but rather as a gang that publishes data for free.
Like many threat groups, Abyss breaches corporate networks and then exfiltrates and encrypts data to achieve double-extortion.
The gang’s encryptor shuts down virtual machines, encrypts virtual disks and metadata connected to those machines and encrypts all other devices on the device.
Abyss is believed to have ties to the infamous HelloKitty ransomware gang, using some of its source code for its malware, according to SOCRadar.
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