SEKOIA.IO presents its Ransomware threat landscape for the first semester of 2022, with the following key points:

• Ransomware victimology – recent evolutions
• A busy first half of the year – several newcomers in the ransomware neighborhood
• Cross-platform ransomware features trend
• New extortion techniques
• State-nexus groups carrying out ransomware campaigns
• Ransomware threat groups’ Dark Web activities
• A shift towards extortion without encryption?

Vice Society is a little-known double extortion group that exfiltrates its victims' data and threatens its victims to leak their information.

You may not have missed all the noises recently caused by Lapsus$, a group that seems to specialize in extortion without necessarily leveraging ransomware.

At first glance, Lapsus$ check marks all elements that would make researchers put them in the low priority threats, especially considering their readiness to make dramas and OpSec failures. Except that the group has successfully managed to significantly enrich its victim list with high profile corporations, thus drawing all our attention.

In the following, we will describe the threat actor profile that was drawn by our investigations based either on OSINT, dark web or infrastructure analysis.