
This attribution assessment is based on forensic artifacts, as well as overlaps in victimology, tradecraft, capabilities, and infrastructure, with known IRIDIUM activity. IRIDIUM is a Russia-based threat actor tracked by Microsoft, publicly overlapping with Sandworm, that has been consistently active in the war in Ukraine and has been linked to destructive attacks since the start of the war. Attribution to IRIDIUMĪs of November 2022, MSTIC assesses that IRIDIUM very likely executed the Prestige ransomware-style attack. We observed this new ransomware, which labels itself in its ransom note as “Prestige ranusomeware”, being deployed on October 11 in attacks occurring within an hour of each other across all victims.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has identified evidence of a novel ransomware campaign targeting organizations in the transportation and related logistics industries in Ukraine and Poland utilizing a previously unidentified ransomware payload. Novemupdate: MSTIC has updated this blog to document assessed attribution of DEV-0960 as IRIDIUM, the actor that executed the Prestige ransomware-style attacks.

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