ShinyHunters
Also tracked as UNC6240, Bling Libra
ShinyHunters is a cyber criminal collective that has been active since at least 2019 operating under the ShinyCorp persona. ShinyHunters has targeted multiple industries and geographic regions gathering legitimate credentials and personally identifiable information (PII) for resale or extortion of victims. ShinyHunters has been associated with the broader collective called The Community, also known as The Com whose members have also included Scattered Spider and LAPSUS$. Public reporting has mentioned a variety of names for operations ShinyHunters members have reportedly conducted with members of other groups, including “Scattered Lapsus Hunters,” “Scattered Lapsus Shiny Hunters,” and “SLSH.”
- Documented techniques
- 46
- Assessed motivation
- Financial gain
- First seen
- 2019
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
reconnaissance5
resource development6
initial access2
execution4
credential access3
discovery7
collection4
command and control4
exfiltration1
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.