SentinelOne Demo: SentinelOne VS Abyss Locker Ransomware – Protection

In this video, we demonstrate how SentinelOne detects and responds to Abyss Locker ransomware. These ransomware operations, in their current form, emerged in March 2023, aggressively targeting VMware ESXi environments. Abyss Locker is a multi-extortion group, hosting a TOR-based website where victims are listed along with their exfiltrated data should they fail to comply with the demands of the threat actor.

In January of 2023, threat actor “infoleak222” posted on the now defunct Breached forums, linking to victim data that overlapped with data also posted on the Abyss Locker website. It is believed that these events are related and that Abyss Locker operations were in full swing many months prior to the posting of their TOR-based blog. Previous variations of Abyss, including a Windows variant, have been observed as far back as 2019.

Abyss Locker ransomware campaigns have been targeted at numerous industries including finance, manufacturing, information technology, and healthcare. Based on postings from the groups website, primary targeting is in the United States with the medical, manufacturing, and technology sectors being attacked most frequently.

The SentinelOne Singularity XDR Platform can identify and stop any malicious activities and items related to Abyss Locker ransomware.