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АКБ «ФОРА-БАНК» (АО)

listed as forabank.ru · Claimed by Werewolves · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 23, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

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

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FORA-BANK (АКБ «ФОРА-БАНК») is a Russian commercial bank registered by the Central Bank of Russia on 27 May 1992. It operates as a universal financial institution offering settlement and cash services, foreign exchange and securities trading, and participates in international payment systems (VISA and MasterCard).

Industry
Banking & Financial Services
Founded
1992

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Russian bank with depositor protection system registration; exfiltration of banking data affecting customers' financial records and payment systems participation constitutes critical exposure of regulated financial institution data.

The werewolves group claims to have exfiltrated compromised information from FORA-BANK. A ransom demand of $450,000 was issued for non-publication and deletion of the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • bank customer records
  • financial transaction data
  • compromised information (unspecified)

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

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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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

Other recent disclosures by werewolves

werewolves has been linked to 26 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, forabank.ru is reported in Russia, a country with 63 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by werewolves means forabank.ru appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on werewolves's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.