FIN10 Threat Actors Hack and Extort Canadian Mining, Casino Industries

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A marauding group of threat actors dubbed FIN10 has extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoins from Canadian companies in a cybercrime campaign that appears to have started at least as far back as 2013. Security vendor FireEye on Friday released a report describing the group’s activities and warning about active cyber-extortion campaigns against organizations in the last few weeks. FIN10’s modus operandi has been to break into victim networks, steal sensitive business data, corporate strategy documents, personally identifiable information and other data, and then demand money in return for not leaking it publicly. Extortion amounts have typically ranged from 100 to 500 Bitcoins or about $124,000 to $620,000 based on mid-April 2017 rates, FireEye said.

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