The rise of Karakurt Hacking Team.

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

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Guest Rob Boyce, Accenture's Global Lead for Cyber Incident Response and Transformation Services, joins Dave to discuss their research "Karakurt rises from its lair." Accenture Security has identified a new threat group, the self-proclaimed Karakurt Hacking Team, that has impacted over 40 victims across multiple geographies. The threat group is financially motivated, opportunistic in nature, and so far, appears to target smaller companies or corporate subsidiaries versus the alternative big game hunting approach. Based on intrusion analysis to date, the threat group focuses solely on data exfiltration and subsequent extortion, rather than the more destructive ransomware deployment. In addition, Accenture Security assesses with moderate-to-high confidence that the threat group’s extortion approach includes steps to avoid, as much as possible, drawing attention to its activities. The research can be found here: Karakurt rises from its lair

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
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1:39.4	Thanks for joining us. So we had stumbled upon this threat actor team in September when we saw a number of very similar tactics being used
1:56.0	which were very different that what we were used to if we were just coming off
1:58.9	the ransomware wave where they were behaving differently. That's Robert Boyce, he's global lead of cyber-instant response and transformation services at Accenture
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2:09.2	The research we're discussing today is titled Carracurt rises from its layer. Want to have your voice heard?
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