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COSTA RICA’S PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY HIT BY HIVE RANSOMWARE
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SERGIU GATLAN
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All computer systems on the network of Costa Rica's public health service (known
as Costa Rican Social Security Fund or CCCS) are now offline following a Hive
ransomware attack that hit them this morning.
Hive, a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation active since at least June
2021, has been behind attacks on over 30 organizations, counting only the
victims who refused to pay the ransom and had their data leaked online.
BleepingComputer was able to confirm that Hive ransomware was behind today's
attack after seeing one of the ransom notes.
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The CCCS publicly acknowledged the attack three hours ago in a statement issued
on Twitter, saying that the attackers hacked their way into its network "in the
early hours of Tuesday."
While an investigation is still ongoing, the Costa Rican government agency says
that citizens' health and tax information stored in the EDUS (Unified Digital
Health) and the SICERE (Centralized Tax-Collection System) databases was not
compromised.
Employees reported [1, 2, 3] that they were told to shut down their computers
and unplug them from the networks after all the printers on the govt agency's
network began printing when the attack started.
Some also shared video proof showing stacks of dozens of printed pages filled
with gibberish ASCII-based text.
CCCS is now working on restoring the affected systems and critical services,
but, so far, it is impossible to determine how long it will take until systems
are back up.
ATTACK FOLLOW A STREAK OF CONTI HACKS
The incident comes after Costa Rica declared a national emergency
following Conti ransomware attacks that hit multiple government bodies,
including the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS).
The list of government entities hit by Conti affiliates also includes
the country's Ministry of Finance, its Ministry of Labor and Social Security
(MTSS), the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology, and Telecommunications,
and the Social Development and Family Allowances Fund (FODESAF).
"The attack that Costa Rica is suffering from cybercriminals is declared a
national emergency and we are signing this decree, precisely, to declare a state
of national emergency throughout the public sector of the Costa Rican State and
allow our society to respond to these attacks as criminal acts," said the Costa
Rican President when signing the Executive Decree No. 42542 on May 8.
The Conti gang has demanded a $10 million ransom from the Costa Rican Ministry
of Finance which the government declined to pay.
The U.S. government is now offering rewards of up to $15 million to anyone who
can provide information that can lead to the identification and arrest of Conti
ransomware's leadership and operators.
THE CONTI - HIVE LINK
While Conti is now slowly shutting down operations, it has partnered with
numerous well-known ransomware operations, including Hive and HelloKitty,
AvosLocker, BlackCat, BlackByte, and others.
Its members have now splintered into smaller semi-autonomous and autonomous
groups that have infiltrated the other RaaS groups.
They've also created independent groups focused on data exfiltration and not
data encryption (e.g., Karakurt, BlackByte, and the Bazarcall collective).
Since Conti members have joined Hive's ranks, the groups have begun leaking the
victims' data on both leak blogs although they're denying there's any link
between the two gangs.
Hive ransomware leak page (BleepingComputer)
"AdvIntel identified and confirmed with a high level of certainty that Conti has
been working with HIVE for over half a year - since at least November 2021. We
have identified extended evidence of HIVE actively using both the initial attack
accesses provided by Conti and the services of Conti's pentesters," Advanced
Intel's Yelisey Boguslavskiy told BleepingComputer.
"The same individuals were working for both Conti and HIVE, as it is seen in the
same victims appearing on shame blogs of both HIVE and Conti simultaneously.
HIVE currently serves as one of the negotiation escape roots for Conti."
"Conti members continue negotiations with the victims that they have previously
breached under the HIVE brand. This gives them an opportunity to get paid, as,
unlike Conti, HIVE is not associated with the direct support of the Russian
invasion of Ukraine, despite the fact that the ransom paid to HIVE is most
likely received by the same individuals within Conti who claimed the group's
collective alignment to the Russian government."
Thx for news tip: Brett Callow
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