Security News > 2023 > November > Meet the Unique New "Hacking" Group: AlphaLock

It's not every day that you discover a new Russian hacking group complete with a song and dance routine, a sleek user interface and a clearly thought-out business model.

AlphaLock serves as one of the first and interesting examples we've seen of a threat group trying to create their own end to end pipeline to generate revenue.

AlphaLock takes measures to claim that they are simply training "Pentesters," a phenomenon that is familiar to any security researchers familiar with ransomware group messaging and their claims of "Pentesting after the fact."

AlphaLock appears to be at least relatively sophisticated and active across Telegram, Matrix, and the dark web forum XSS. There are a few interesting insights we can gain into the broader cybercrime ecosystem from AlphaLock.

A Technical Threat Actor Supply Shortage? One of the most fascinating things about AlphaLock is they want to create a pipeline of talent to populate their hacker marketplace.

The Brand: Our researchers have noted an increasing focus on group "Brand" and identity among financially motivated threat groups.

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