G0061 Ransomwareour call,
not MITRE’s ATT&CK Group

FIN8

How MITRE ATT&CK characterizes this group¹: FIN8 is a financially motivated threat group that has been active since at least January 2016, and known for targeting organizations in the hospitality, retail, entertainment, insurance, technology, chemical, and financial sectors. In June 2021, security researchers detected FIN8 switching from targeting point-of-sale (POS) devices to distributing a number of ransomware variants.

Origin / sponsor: not established from a curated public advisory — see Coverage & confidence. Not asserted here.

Also tracked as: Syssphinx — ATT&CK group page¹

Read this as · tier is our editorial call, not MITRE’s

Read as a crew that turns access into an outage.

A ransomware classification means the path is funded to reach disruption and extortion — encryption, data theft for leverage, and downtime. Exposure here is a business-continuity problem, not just a patch ticket. All tradecraft below is sourced to MITRE ATT&CK.

Techniques

ATT&CK count¹

Named tools / malware

ATT&CK count²

Attributed campaigns

ATT&CK count¹

Tactics spanned

ATT&CK count¹

coverage gap

Activity bounds

no attributed campaign

Known for

— signature moves, each sourced to ATT&CK

ArsenalNamed tooling. ATT&CK attributes 11 tools/malware to this group, including PsExec, Net, Ping, dsquery.³⁹

ReachFurthest outcome. This actor's cited tradecraft reaches as far as outcome 5 — Lights out — disruption & extortion. (editorial mapping over ATT&CK tactics).

Tradecraft heatmap

— ATT&CK techniques mapped onto the five attacker-outcome narratives

Each row is a documented technique (MITRE ATT&CK). Each column is one of the five attacker-outcome narratives a defender funds against. A filled cell means this technique’s own ATT&CK tactic defensibly advances that outcome. The mapping of technique→outcome is our editorial alignment over ATT&CK's tactic data, not a separately-sourced MITRE edge. A filled cell means one of the technique's own ATT&CK tactics defensibly advances that outcome; enabler tactics (C2, Defense Evasion, Discovery) heat no column.

1Front door

2Keys to the kingdom

3Lateral reach

4Data at risk

5Lights out

T1003.001 LSASS MemoryCredential Access

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T1016.001 Internet Connection DiscoveryDiscovery

T1018 Remote System DiscoveryDiscovery

T1021.001 Remote Desktop ProtocolLateral Movement

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T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin SharesLateral Movement

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T1027.010 Command ObfuscationDefense Evasion

T1033 System Owner/User DiscoveryDiscovery

T1047 Windows Management InstrumentationExecution

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T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 ProtocolExfiltration

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T1053.005 Scheduled TaskExecution / Persistence / Privilege Escalation

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T1055.004 Asynchronous Procedure CallPrivilege Escalation / Defense Evasion

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T1059.001 PowerShellExecution

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T1059.003 Windows Command ShellExecution

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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege EscalationPrivilege Escalation

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T1070.001 Clear Windows Event LogsDefense Evasion

T1070.004 File DeletionDefense Evasion

T1071.001 Web ProtocolsCommand & Control

T1074.002 Remote Data StagingCollection

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T1078 Valid AccountsInitial Access / Persistence / Privilege Escalation / Defense Evasion

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T1082 System Information DiscoveryDiscovery

T1102 Web ServiceCommand & Control

T1105 Ingress Tool TransferCommand & Control

T1112 Modify RegistryPersistence / Defense Evasion

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T1134.001 Token Impersonation/TheftPrivilege Escalation / Defense Evasion

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T1204.001 Malicious LinkExecution

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T1204.002 Malicious FileExecution

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T1482 Domain Trust DiscoveryDiscovery

T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactImpact

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T1518.001 Security Software DiscoveryDiscovery

T1546.003 Windows Management Instrumentation Event SubscriptionPersistence / Privilege Escalation

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T1560.001 Archive via UtilityCollection

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T1566.001 Spearphishing AttachmentInitial Access

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T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkInitial Access

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T1573.002 Asymmetric CryptographyCommand & Control

T1588.002 ToolResource Development

T1588.003 Code Signing CertificatesResource Development

Reach: this actor’s cited techniques light columns 1·2·3·4·5 — furthest is 5 · Lights out. (furthest-position idiom, reused from the landing map).

A dot = this technique advances that outcome

Editorial: the technique→outcome alignment is our call over ATT&CK’s tactic data, not a separately-sourced MITRE edge — same basis the landing page declares. Enabler tactics (C2, defense evasion, discovery) heat no column.¹

Arsenal

— named tools & malware ATT&CK attributes to this group

PsExecS0029 · Tool

NetS0039 · Tool

PingS0097 · Tool

dsqueryS0105 · Tool

PUNCHBUGGYS0196 · Malware

ATT&CK S0196 ↗

PUNCHTRACKS0197 · Malware

ATT&CK S0197 ↗

ImpacketS0357 · Tool

ATT&CK S0357 ↗

NltestS0359 · Tool

ATT&CK S0359 ↗

+3 moreCoverage

ATT&CK attributes 11 tools/malware to G0061 in total; the full list is on the group page.

ATT&CK G0061 ↗

Campaign highlights

— attributed operations in the ATT&CK record

No attributed campaigns — coverage gap

Stated, not hidden

ATT&CK lists no first-class campaign object for G0061 at this snapshot. Public reporting may tie this actor to operations; those enter only with a named advisory under the same cite-or-die rule.

Latest activity

— with explicit confidence, and what we cannot yet claim

ATT&CK
snapshot

The most recent cited activity in this card is the ATT&CK record itself. We do not paste a “last seen this week” line we cannot source. Recency from secondary reporting appears here only when attached to a named advisory.

ATT&CK snapshot, compiled 2026-06-22Coverage gap — live “currently active” status not asserted

CVE ↔ actor bridge: no confirmed CVE link is established for this group. ATT&CK provides no first-class group→CVE relationship, so this card does not claim specific CVEs as “exploited by this actor” unless a named advisory says so. Absence of a CVE here is a coverage gap, never a clean bill — confirmed links surface as a cited, linked list as the advisory bridge grows.

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

Group identity, aliases, description — MITRE ATT&CK group page

36 techniques — ATT&CK technique pages (linked per row)

11 software (arsenal) — ATT&CK software pages

4 third-party research citations — ATT&CK external references

Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

Origin/sponsor not established from a curated public advisory. ATT&CK prose may imply attribution but is not asserted here — absence of a curated source is a coverage finding, not a clean bill of attribution.

Threat tier is OUR editorial classification (rule-based), not a MITRE field — labeled as such.

Technique → outcome heatmap is editorial alignment over ATT&CK tactic data, not a separately-sourced MITRE edge.

Activity bounds are a floor from attributed-campaign dates only — flagged approx., not a true active-since range.

ATT&CK has no first-class group→CVE relationship; this card asserts no specific CVE without a named advisory.

No attributed ATT&CK campaign object — activity bounds cannot be established.