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Vanilla Tempest is a financially motivated cybercriminal ransomware and data-extortion actor also tracked as DEV-0832, Rapid Brigantine, Vice Society, and Vice Spider. Active since at least 2022, the group is associated with human-operated ransomware intrusions, particularly against education and health care organizations, and has also affected retail-sector victims. It has targeted organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, and New Zealand. The actor conducts double-extortion operations, exfiltrating victim data and threatening public disclosure in addition to deploying ransomware. Its operations have used a leak site and a succession of third-party or custom-branded ransomware payloads, including HelloKitty, Zeppelin, Five Hands, PolyVice, RedAlert, BlackCat, Quantum Locker, Rhysida, and, in late 2024, INC ransomware. The group has been linked to the Lorem Ipsum malware ecosystem, which delivers staged loaders and backdoors and can lead to ransomware deployment. Observed intrusion tradecraft includes social engineering through ClickFix lures and fraudulent software installers, exploitation of known public-facing vulnerabilities, and use of compromised credentials. Vanilla Tempest activity has employed PowerShell, legitimate tools and living-off-the-land binaries, DLL sideloading, hidden payload staging, scheduled-task and Registry Run-key persistence, Active Directory and domain reconnaissance, and dead-drop command-and-control mechanisms. The actor has used post-compromise tooling to maintain access, move within victim networks, impair defenses, steal data, and execute ransomware payloads.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
62 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
23 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
18 additional families tracked in Mallory.
2 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 2 of them exploited in the wild.
Exploiting publicly available vulnerabilities (such as PrintNightmare) to perform remote code execution seems to be the most advanced technique the group has been observed using.
"Zerologon is a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft’s Netlogon Remote Protocol (CVE-2020-1472, patched 11 August 2020), which attackers can exploit to gain administrative access to a Windows domain controller without any authentication"
62 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Reported to use the Supper custom backdoor to establish a foothold before deploying ransomware. The analyzed ClickFix activity has TTP and infrastructure overlap with malware and activity discussed in this attribution context, but the content does not conclusively attribute the campaigns to Vanilla Tempest.
Ransomware operation claiming responsibility for attacks against Spar store operators and leaking allegedly stolen victim data on its data leak site.
Listed among detected threat actors/TTP references, but not substantively discussed in the report summary.
Threat actor observed deploying INC ransomware against the health care industry and known for rotating among third-party ransomware payloads.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.