When Wolves Eat Wolves: The Ransomware Drama That Has Me DECEASED 💀🐺
Okay bestie I am literally not okay right now. Two ransomware gangs, 0APT and KryBit, got into a full-on catfight and accidentally doxxed EACH OTHER. No cap. The wolves forgot about the flock entirely and just started biting each other's tails. This is the villain origin story nobody asked for but we absolutely deserve to witness. 👀
I'm obsessed. I'm unwell. I'm taking notes.
So here's the tea: 0APT and KryBit had some kind of beef (we don't know the drama, we just know it was PERSONAL), and in their little feud they started leaking each other's infrastructure details, operational data, the whole situationship. Like, babe, you just handed defenders a rare peek behind the curtain of how your whole cringe operation actually runs. Slay? No, actually, the OPPOSITE of slay. This is a flop era for ransomware gangs everywhere. #WolfProblems
The absolutely unhinged part is that security researchers are now getting intel they would normally spend months trying to dig up. Leaked command-and-control setups, exposed tooling, operational habits. The wolves basically left the den door open and posted a map to it. The vibes are chaotic and I am HERE for it. #AccidentalTransparency #ChaosIsMyLoveLanguage
Now, the Shepherds in your organization are probably going to hear about this and say "oh great, we're safe now, the bad guys are fighting each other!" Please. PLEASE. Do not let them cook. This is a blip. The wolves will make up, get therapy, and be back on the Sky Pasture by next quarter. ☁️
The flock remains oblivious and the Electric Fence remains, statistically, not fully updated. You know who you are. #NoShame #ActuallyMaybeShame
🐑 Remediation, But Make It Serve
- Use the leaked intel, bestie. Threat intel teams should be ALL over the exposed infrastructure details. This is a gift. Wrap it up and operationalize it immediately.
- Patch the holes in the fence. Any zero-days these groups were known to exploit? Shear them off NOW. No excuses, no "we'll schedule it for Q3."
- Check your Sheep Tunnels. Make sure VPN configs and remote access points aren't matching anything in the leaked operational data. Cross-reference. Do the thing.
- Brief the Shepherds, but keep it simple. Tell them this is a temporary gift, not a permanent ceasefire. Manage expectations before they get comfortable.
- Threat hunt like it's a vibe. Because it is. 🔍✨
The wolves are in their flop era but that era has an expiration date, stay frosty fam 🐺❄️
Original Report: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/feuding-ransomware-groups-leak-data