{"id":82158,"date":"2023-07-25T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82158"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:24:14","slug":"azimut-group-declines-to-pay-blackcat-bitcoin-extortionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/azimut-group-declines-to-pay-blackcat-bitcoin-extortionists\/","title":{"rendered":"Azimut Group declines to pay BlackCat bitcoin extortionists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian asset manager Azimut Group, managing assets worth more than $87.2 billion, fell victim to the BlackCat ransomware group. The firm published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azimut-group.com\/documents\/20195\/2167808\/press+release+july+24+2023\/4c46b3ea-f67c-4deb-af18-625a1acc94f0\">\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0447\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435<\/a> on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on July 21. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ransomware.live\/#\/group\/alphv\">Ransomware.live<\/a>, the hackers claimed to have stolen &#8220;more than 500 GB of data,&#8221; including allegedly complete financial information of clients, the company&#8217;s reports, information on shares and purchases of antiques. Threatening to leak the data, BlackCat demanded an undisclosed ransom.<\/p>\n<p>However, Azimut Group declined the extortionists&#8217; demands. The company acknowledged &#8216;unauthorized access&#8217; to its systems, but reassured that clients&#8217; personal and financial information is safe and that the attackers did not execute any transactions.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Chainalysis report, in early 2022, the revenues of Bitcoin extortionists <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-reports-a-substantial-fall-in-ransomware-operators-bitcoin-revenues\">fell by 40%<\/a> from the previous year, as many victims refused to pay the attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian asset manager Azimut Group, managing assets worth more than $87.2 billion, fell victim to the BlackCat ransomware group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1188,1603],"class_list":["post-82158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-data-breach","tag-italy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82160,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82158\/revisions\/82160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}