LostTrust Team Claims The Ferguson Wellman Cyber Attack


In a recent cybersecurity news development, the LostTrust ransomware group recently targeted nearly 53 organizations with its ransomware attacks. Several cybersecurity researchers were found reporting the incidents caused by the group including the Ferguson Wellman cyber attack.

Besides this, LostTrust claimed cyber attacks on Morgan County School District, Tormax, and Brown and Streza among others. Morgan County School District is a k-12 school district based in Colorado, and Ferguson Wellman is a capital management investment advisory firm in Oregon.

This shows the targeting of US-based organizations by the LostTrust team which according to cybersecurity researchers seems similar to another ransomware group called Metaencryptor team.

Ferguson Wellman Cyber Attack

Not much has been found about the Ferguson Wellman cyber attack so far in terms of the data being stolen and the ransom deadline given to the target. The Cyber Express emailed the prominent investment, and wealth management organization for comments about the Ferguson Wellman cyber attack. We will update this report upon receiving the same.

The website of Ferguson Wellman was accessible when checked by The Cyber Express team.

On Twitter, several of the victims of LostTrust were reported by researchers who monitor the dark web, namely Ransomfeed, ThreatMon Ransomware Monitoring, and Ransomware Victims.

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LostTrust cyber attack reported by a researcher (Photo: Ransomfeed/ Twitter)

These are some of the names claimed by LostTrust hackers besides the Ferguson Wellman ransomware attack –

  1. Liberty Lines
  2. Gordon Law Firm
  3. Arazoza Brothers
  4. Omniatel
  5. Glassline
  6. Center Township Trustee
  7. SydganCorp
  8. Immanuel Christian School
  9. Carnelutti Law Firm
  10. Theater League Inc
  11. Asia Vegetable
  12. EWBizservice
  13. Merced City School District
  14. Ambrosini Holding
  15. Johnson Boiler Works
  16. Tormax
  17. JSM Group
  18. Paradise Custom Kitchens
  19. Ananda Temple
  20. Garlick & Markison
  21. Gold Coin Restaurant
  22. Leiblein & Kollegen Steuerberatungsgesellschaft
  23. Contraband Control Specialists
  24. Carmocal
  25. The WorkPlace
  26. LoopLoc
  27. GI Medical Services
  28. Hoosier Uplands Economic Development
  29. Oasys Technologies
  30. Central Trenching
  31. Marlboro Township Public School
  32. Key Construction
  33. Foundation Professionals of Florida
  34. Reload SPA
  35. Gateseven Media Group
  36. EnCom Polymers
  37. Jersey College
  38. Double V Construction
  39. Popovici Niu Stoica & Asociaii
  40. Procab
  41. Professional Moving Company – Mackie Group
  42. Speciality Process Equipment
  43. SPEC Engineering
  44. Bit
  45. Alexander City, Alabama
  46. Go-Ahead Group
  47. Mexican Government
  48. Central Trenching
  49. Cullum Services
  50. Colors Dress
  51. I&Y Senior Care
  52. Swann’s Furniture & Design
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Ambrosini Holdings cyber attack by LostTrust (Photo: Ransomfeed/ Twitter)

Oddly enough, the ransomware group named the Ferguson Wellman ransomware attack and the above names within the past 24 hours. This indicates the desperation of to create a name for themselves and extract money from possible cyber attacks.

LostTrust Teams v/s Metaencryptor Team

Cyber attack researcher Stefano Favarato posted screenshots from the dark web portal of both LostTrust and Metaencryptor ransomware groups to show how similar it looked.

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LostTrust’s dark web blog (Photo: Stefano Favarato/ Twitter)

Stefano tweeted, After 8Base vs CryptBB, now stepping into the ring are LostTrust vs Metaencryptor. Who copied who?”

A similar introduction on the dark web portal of both the cybercriminal groups indicates that they may have been one team that later split or had the same leader or operators.

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Metaencryptor Team’s blog (Photo: Stefano Favarato/ Twitter)

Their dark web introduction reads – We are a group of young people who identify themselves as specialists in the field of network security with at least 15 years of experience.

They both claim that they have other mediums for communication while the blog on the dark web is for commercial purposes. Both the groups asserted not aligning with any political groups or intelligence agencies.

Both the introductions on the blog of LostTrust and Metaencryptor Team were posted on January 20, 2022.

 

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