1.5TB allegedly stolen in Australian Nursing Home Foundation cyberattack

An Australian aged care organization has reportedly suffered a ransomware attack after malicious actors listed the company on the dark web.

The Australian Nursing Home Foundation is a provider of community care and accommodation for Chinese and South East Asian older people. It has a number of retirement homes and accommodations.

The Abyss ransomware gang has listed the Australian Nursing Home Foundation on its dark web leak site, claiming to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of uncompressed data.

The threat group has provided little to no details about the incident, other than that the data will be released on November 5.

Cyber ​​Daily has contacted the Australian Nursing Home Foundation for comment on the incident.

Abyss, or Abyss Locker, first appeared in March 2023, according to CyberInt. Uniquely, the group does not present itself as a ransomware group but rather as a gang that publishes data for free.

Like many malicious groups, Abyss hacks corporate networks, then exfiltrates and encrypts data to achieve double extortion.

The gang’s encryptor shuts down virtual machines, encrypts virtual disks and metadata connected to those machines, and encrypts all other devices on the device.

Abyss allegedly has ties to the infamous HelloKitty ransomware gang, using some of its source code for its malware, according to SOCRadar.