FIN13
Also tracked as Elephant Beetle
FIN13 is a financially motivated cyber threat group that has targeted the financial, retail, and hospitality industries in Mexico and Latin America, as early as 2016. FIN13 achieves its objectives by stealing intellectual property, financial data, mergers and acquisition information, or PII.
- Known attack methods
- 53
- Motive
- Financial gain
- First seen
- 2016
- Source
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, mapped onto the ATT&CK matrix. Each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques · 2 used
Resource Development
9 techniques · 2 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 1 used
Execution
20 techniques · 3 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 5 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 6 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques · 1 used
Credential Access
17 techniques · 2 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 8 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 2 used
Collection
17 techniques · 4 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 4 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques · 2 used
Resource development2
Initial access1
Execution5
Persistence5
Stealth8
Defense impairment1
Credential access4
Discovery10
- T1016System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001Internet Connection Discovery
- T1046Network Service Discovery
- T1049System Network Connections Discovery
- T1069Permission Groups Discovery
- T1082System Information Discovery
- T1083File and Directory Discovery
- T1087Account Discovery
- T1087.002Domain Account
- T1135Network Share Discovery
Lateral movement5
Collection4
Command and control4
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.