Security News > 2020 > June > 'Dark Basin' Hack-for-Hire Group Targeted Thousands Worldwide
Referred to as Dark Basin and linked to Indian company BellTroX InfoTech Services, the threat actor is believed to have targeted senior politicians, government prosecutors, CEOs, journalists, and human rights defenders, among others.
"Dark Basin has a remarkable portfolio of targets, from senior government officials and candidates in multiple countries, to financial services firms such as hedge funds and banks, to pharmaceutical companies. Troublingly, Dark Basin has extensively targeted American advocacy organizations working on domestic and global issues. These targets include climate advocacy organizations and net neutrality campaigners," Citizen Lab notes.
"We are not conclusively attributing Dark Basin's phishing campaign against these organizations to a particular Dark Basin client at this time," the researchers say.
Dark Basin also targeted at least two American advocacy groups during a period when they were asking the Federal Communications Commission to preserve net neutrality rules in the US. Non-governmental organizations Fight for the Future and Free Press were targeted between July 7 and August 8, 2017.
Dark Basin targeted a large number of industries, but the financial sector appears to have been hit the most, Citizen Lab reports.