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Hive Ransomware drive alert by FBI

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has delivered a vulnerability alert on the Hive ransomware assaults that incorporates specialized subtleties and pointers of giving and take related to the tasks of the team. 

As of late, the gang hit the Memorial Health System that had to suspend a portion of its activities.

Hive ransomware has been in action since June 2021, it executes a Ransomware-as-a-Service model and utilizes a wide assortment of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). Government specialists express that the gathering utilizes different components to think twice about the people in question, incorporating phishing messages with pernicious connections to obtain entrance and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to move along the side once on the organization.

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To work with record encryption, ransomware searches for measures related to reinforcements, hostile to infection/against spyware, and document replicating and ends them. The Hive ransomware adds the .hive expansion to the filename of encoded documents. The ransomware then drops a hive.bat script into the index, which implements an execution break postponement of one second prior to performing cleanup once the encryption interaction is finished. The malware erases the Hive executable and the hive.bat script. A subsequent document, shadow.bat, is dropped into the catalog and is utilized by ransomware administrators to erase shadow duplicates and erases the shadow.bat record itself once the endeavor is finished.

“During the encryption cycle, encoded records are renamed with the twofold last expansion of *.key.hive or *.key.*. The payment note, “HOW_TO_DECRYPT.txt” is dropped into each influenced registry and states the key. record can’t be altered, renamed, or erased, in any case, the encoded documents can’t be recuperated.” peruses the FBI’s ready. “The note contains an “outreach group” interface, open through a TOR program, empowering casualties to contact the entertainers through a live visit. A few casualties detailed getting calls from Hive entertainers mentioning installment for their records.”

The cutoff time for payment is between 2 to 6 days, yet at times danger entertainers delayed it because of a continuous arrangement with the person in question. 

The alert gives pointers of Indicators of Compromise(IoCs), including the onion address of the hole site (http://hiveleakdbtnp76ulyhi52eag6c6tyc3xw7ez7iqy6wc34gd2nekazyd.onion) utilized by the group.

The gang additionally depends on various document sharing administrations, including Anonfiles, MEGA, Send. Exploit, Ufile, or SendSpace. 

A couple of days prior, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has distributed another alert about a danger entertainer known as OnePercent Group that has been effectively focusing on US associations in ransomware assaults since basically November 2020.

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