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falcon Ransomware Group
Ransomware group profile
3Victims
United StatesSource country
56Impact score
Description
Falcon is a financially motivated cyber extortion group that focuses on data theft rather than traditional ransomware tactics. Formed as part of the UNC6671 threat cluster, Falcon employs social engineering and voice phishing to compromise enterprise credentials and extract sensitive data for extortion purposes.
Key insights
- •Falcon utilizes voice phishing techniques to impersonate IT support, targeting employees' personal mobile devices.
- •The group executes credential harvesting through adversary-in-the-middle phishing frameworks to intercept authentication tokens.
- •Falcon establishes dedicated leak sites to pressure victims into paying multimillion-dollar ransoms in cryptocurrency.
- •The threat group primarily targets enterprises in the legal, finance, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing sectors across North America, the UK, and Australia.
- •Falcon leverages automated scripts and residential proxies for data synchronization and extraction from cloud applications.
Threat Level & Status Breakdown
For falcon · Based on incidents in selected period
1.8threat level
Aggressiveness0.8/ 10
Lethality0/ 10
Criticality5/ 10
Status Breakdown
Claimed100.0%3
First seenAug 2026
Last seenAug 2026
Avg ransom—
Payment rate—
Statusactive
Sophistication0
Last updatedSep 20, 2026
Recent activity
Monthly attack count for falcon in the selected period
3Total attacks
3peak in Aug
3avg / month
Intelligence
IOCs, YARA/Sigma rules, and related families for falcon
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TTPs & Attack Vectors
Tools, initial access, and MITRE ATT&CK techniques for falcon
Defense Evasion
T1562
Impair Defenses
Execution
T1059
Command and Scripting Interpreter
T1105
Ingress Tool Transfer
Impact
T1486
Data Encrypted for Impact
T1490
Inhibit System Recovery
Lateral Movement
T1021
Remote Services
T1080
Taint Shared Content
T1021.001
Remote Desktop Protocol
Persistence
T1078
Valid Accounts
T1547
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
Victims(3)
| Company | Country | Status | Discovered | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayward Holdings | United States | Claimed | 21 days ago | |
| DNOW Inc. | United States | Claimed | 23 days ago | |
| Globus Medical | United States | Claimed | 23 days ago |
Affected countries(3)
Countries where this group has been reported to target or leak victims.