The CISA, FBI and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS ISAC) has released the guidelines to publicize and indicate the Vice Society threat actors and their ransomware campaigns.
Accordingly, the CISA, FBI and the MS-ISAC have lately noticed the Vice Society threat actors maliciously targeting the education sector with such attacks.
CISA Alert AA22-249A – #StopRansomware: Vice Society. Listen to this alert & other recently issued #CISAalerts now. https://t.co/YecM7rrcDm #CISAalert #Cybersecurity @CISAgov @FBI #StopRansomware
— The CyberWire (@thecyberwire) September 6, 2022
From the past several years, the education sector have been a constant target of the these attacks. Due to this attacks the access to networks is restricted, has delayed exams, canceled school days and has stolen the personal information of students and staff.
Vice Society is an extortion hacking collective which first arrived in the year 2021. The specialty of this collective is that they do not use a ransomware variant of other origin. Instead, they have their own deployed versions of Hello Kitty, Five Hands and Zeppelin ransomware. Before injecting the ransomware, the threat actors firstly explore the network, finds opportunities to increase accesses and then exfiltrating data for double extortion.
