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Summary

Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help organizations protect against ransomware. Visit stopransomware.gov to see all #StopRansomware advisories and to learn more about other ransomware threats and no-cost resources.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (hereafter referred to as the authoring organizations) are releasing this joint advisory to disseminate known RansomHub ransomware IOCs and TTPs. These have been identified through FBI threat response activities and third-party reporting as recently as August 2024. RansomHub is a ransomware-as-a-service variant—formerly known as Cyclops and Knight—that has established itself as an efficient and successful service model (recently attracting high-profile affiliates from other prominent variants such as LockBit and ALPHV).

Since its inception in February 2024, RansomHub has encrypted and exfiltrated data from at least 210 victims representing the water and wastewater, information technology, government services and facilities, healthcare and public health, emergency services, food and agriculture, financial services, commercial facilities, critical manufacturing, transportation, and communications critical infrastructure sectors.

The affiliates leverage a double-extortion

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In-brief analysis

August 29, 2024

Heading into the holiday weekend, the retail price for all formulations of regular gasoline in the United States averaged $3.31 per gallon (gal) on August 26, 2024, 13% lower than this time last year. The decrease in prices paid at the pump was driven by weak growth in global and U.S. petroleum product demand, continued crude oil production growth from countries outside of OPEC+, and China’s slowing economy.

On June 2, 2024, OPEC+ members announced that most of their crude oil production cuts will extend into 2025 in an attempt to balance global oil supply with demand. Although crude oil and gasoline prices generally increased in the four weeks after the announcement they have since fallen back to around pre-announcement levels.

The cost of crude oil is a major driver of the

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August 28, 2024

In 2022, energy expenditures—or the amount of money U.S. consumers spent on energy—increased 22% from 2021 to more than $1.7 trillion when adjusted for inflation, according to our State Energy Data System (SEDS). More money was spent on energy in the United States on an inflation-adjusted basis in 2022 than in all but two years in our records. Higher U.S. energy prices in 2022 compared with 2021, particularly higher petroleum prices for transportation, caused most of the increase in total U.S. energy expenditures.

Petroleum and natural gas prices were relatively high in 2022 in part due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Prices have since fallen as global energy markets have adjusted to new trade patterns for crude oil and natural gas production has set new records in the United States.

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