VERY IMPORTANT

Three years ago, a young, motivated Russian-speaking cyber criminal group started targeting the financial sector. Early on, Silence showed signs of immaturity in their TTP by making mistakes and copying practices from other groups. Now, Silence is one of the most active threat actors targeting the financial sector. Since we released our original report, Silence: Moving into the darkside, the confirmed damage from Silence's operations has increased fivefold compared to the figures in Group-IB's initial report.