Disclosure context

About werewolves

The Werewolves ransomware group is a relatively new financially-motivated cybercriminal organization that emerged in December 2023, with limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources. Based on available targeting data, the group appears to operate with a focus on business services and manufacturing sectors, having compromised 26 known victims across multiple countries including Russia, the United States, Netherlands, Germany, and France. The group's targeting pattern suggests they may employ opportunistic attack vectors rather than highly sophisticated initial access methods, though specific technical details about their encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or operational structure remain undocumented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small victim count, there are no publicly reported high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against them. The current operational status of Werewolves remains unclear given the limited threat intelligence reporting available from established cybersecurity firms and government agencies. The group has been linked to 26 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 20, 2023; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 23, 2023forabank.ru listed by werewolveson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, forabank.ru is reported in Russia, a country with 22 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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forabank.ru

Claimed by werewolves · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 23, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: werewolves
Status: Data leaked
Country: Russia
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Dec 23, 2023

What the group claims

АКБ «ФОРА-БАНК» (АО) зарегистрирован Банком России на рынке финансовых услуг 27 мая 1992 г. Входит в реестр системы обязательного страхования вкладов. Организация позиционируется как крупный универсальный финансовый институт. АКБ «ФОРА-БАНК» (АО) осуществляет расчетно-кассовое обслуживание и предоставляет широкий спектр услуг для физических и юридических лиц, проводит операции на валютном и фондовом рынках. АКБ «ФОРА-БАНК» (АО) является участником международных платежных систем VISA и MasterСard.Стоимость не публикации и удаления всей скомпрометрованной информации составляет 450000$.

Sources

Victim siteforabank.ru
Leak posthttps://weerwolven.biz/en/auditexpertnn-ru.html

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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