Barracuda is a ransomware and data-extortion threat actor observed publicly naming victims and monetizing stolen data. Reported victimology includes organizations in Brazil, the United States, South Korea, and China across legal services, health care, technology, and manufacturing. The group has been associated with intrusions followed by theft of large volumes of corporate and personal data, including client records, medical information, employee and partner data, engineering materials, source code, and database dumps. Barracuda has used coercive pressure by threatening to publish or sell stolen information when victims do not respond, and has advertised stolen datasets for sale with leak status indicators such as upcoming, selling, or free. Based on observed operations, Barracuda is best characterized as an extortion-focused ransomware actor whose confirmed behavior centers on data theft and leak-site style pressure rather than clearly documented encryption activity in the available reporting.
Mallory correlates actor tradecraft and target patterns against your stack, your sector, and your geography. See overlap before they land.
Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
5 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
4 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
5 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Conducting a ransomware/data-extortion attack against VR Advogados and threatening to sell stolen client documents if the victim does not respond.
Conducting a ransomware attack and data breach against a healthcare organization, with stolen data including patient medical documents, personal photos, and company procurement records.
Ransomware/extortion activity involving the sale of a fresh full database dump allegedly stolen from Namyang Industrial Co., Ltd. (Namyang Nexmo), including employer, manufacturing, parts, client, and partner information.
Conducting a ransomware attack and data breach against Micro-Comm Inc., with stolen data reportedly being offered for sale.
Match sector + geo + tech-stack targeting against your real footprint.
Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.