Blackout Locker
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Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
Vulnerabilities exploited
1 CVE Mallory has correlated with this family across public research and vendor advisories. Each row links to the full Mallory page for that vulnerability.
Главным инструментом в изученных атаках стала обновленная версия малвари Blackout Locker. Теперь этот вымогатель умеет не только шифровать файлы, но и запускать блокировщик экрана.
Groups observed using it
1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
В конце января 2026 года одна из них — группа 4BID — провела серию атак на организации в Российской Федерации с использованием обновленной версии этого вредоносного ПО.
Techniques & procedures
4 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
Execution
1 technique
Execution
Persistence
3 techniques
Persistence
IOCs tracked for this family
10 indicators attributed across vendor reports, sandbox runs, and researcher write-ups. Full values are available in Mallory.
File hashes (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256) from samples and reports.
Recent activity
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Ransomware/locker malware used in the observed campaigns. It encrypts files, can launch a screen locker, persists via Task Scheduler and startup items, and may relaunch even after the locker window is closed.
Updated ransomware/locker delivered by a Rust dropper. It now includes a screen-locking component launched in parallel with the ransomware payload, establishes persistence via scheduled tasks, registry entries, and startup .lnk files, and displays ransom notes sourced from README.txt or hardcoded text.
The version that knows your environment.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.