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“EGYPT LEAKS” – HACKTIVISTS ARE LEAKING FINANCIAL DATA

October 6, 2022  By Pierluigi Paganini


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RESEARCHERS AT CYBERSECURITY FIRM RESECURITY SPOTTED A NEW GROUP OF HACKTIVISTS
TARGETING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN EGYPT,

Resecurity, a California-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500
corporations globally, has noticed a new group of hacktivists targeting
financial institutions in Egypt. The bad actors go under the campaign “EG Leaks”
(also known as “Egypt Leaks”), they started leaking large volumes of compromised
payment data belonging to the customers of major Egyptian banks on the Dark Web.
First mention of this activity have been detected in a Telegram channel created
to leak Excel files containing 12,229 credit cards.


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The leaked data includes references to PII belonging to potential customers of
major banks in Egypt – including National Bank of Egypt, HSBC Bank Egypt, Bank
of Alexandria, Banque Misr, Alexbank, Credit Agricole Egypt, and multiple other
banks. While some of the data seem to be incomplete, it was confirmed the data
contained multiple customers with valid details, these customers were contacted
individually to confirm and validate it.



According to experts, the source of this data may be related to one of the
compromised underground marketplaces and the actor was previously investigated
by Resecurity HUNTER unit:- the threat intelligence and research arm of the
company. Notably, some of the observed leaked fields of data were inspected
independently, they contained the signatures of possible script or parser
scrapping entries – it is known that the engines of some underground shops on
Dark Web and TOR network are not always properly protecting fields of records,
and in some cases, it could result in the possible leak without an actual data
acquisition.

The data contains e-mail, billing address, first name and last name, name of the
bank and type of card. The bad actors haven’t shared CVV or Track 2 Data, but in
a private conversation, threat actors demonstrated other fields confirming the
data is legitimate. Likely, the motivation of the threat actors is solely
financially driven, and by leaking this data they are attempting to extort the
affected consumers of the financial institutions, or alternatively to
demonstrate the security precedent which requires attention by the banks to get
paid, similar to how ransomware groups negotiate the buyout of exfiltrated data.

The geography of the affected banking clients is primarily centered in Cairo
(70%), but includes Alexandria (12%), Aswan (8%), Giza (7%), Sohag (2%), Luxor
(1%) and other major cities. It’s worth noting, multiple customers from Bahrain
and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have also been identified in the leak.

Experts warn the data released by threat actors may be used for identity theft
and financial fraud, that’s why it is extremely important to take swift action
and the proper steps to minimize the probability of a negative impact. According
to multiple sources, law enforcement authorities are currently investigating the
incident.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
and Bitcoin”.




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