{"id":223267,"date":"2026-06-01T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/fbi-warns-of-in-person-data-theft-attacks-from-extortion-gang\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:50:10","slug":"fbi-warns-of-in-person-data-theft-attacks-from-extortion-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/fbi-warns-of-in-person-data-theft-attacks-from-extortion-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI warns of in-person data theft attacks from extortion gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fbi-warns-of-silent-ransom-group-in-person-data-theft-attacks\/\">FBI warns of in-person data theft attacks from extortion gang<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fbi-warns-of-silent-ransom-group-in-person-data-theft-attacks\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fbi-warns-of-silent-ransom-group-in-person-data-theft-attacks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 07:51:12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI has issued a warning about the Silent Ransom Group (SRG) ramping up its tactics against U.S.-based law firms with sophisticated data theft methods. SRG actors, through a blend of social engineering, phishing, and in-person assaults, attempt to gain unauthorized access to the firms&#8217; sensitive information. By impersonating IT support, they lure unsuspecting employees into giving remote access or send threats to infiltrate their offices physically. The group employs these stolen data for extortion, forcing victims to consider ransom payments or face public exposure. SRG, formerly associated with the Conti and Ryuk ransomware groups, has been targeting legal and financial entities since 2022, with a specific focus on U.S.-based law firms since early 2023. The FBI notes indicators like unexpected visitors claiming to be IT support or unauthorized installation of external storage devices that could signal SRG\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<br \/>\n&#8211; SRG uses social engineering and in-person theft for data theft.<br \/>\n&#8211; The group impersonates IT support, physically stealing data via USB or external drives.<br \/>\n&#8211; SRG employs extortion tactics with ransom demands tied to sold or leaked data.<br \/>\n&#8211; Operating under various aliases, the group has a history dating back to 2022.<br \/>\n&#8211; FBI warns that both phishing attempts and unexpected IT claims on-site are key SRG attack markers.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI warns of in-person data theft attacks from extortion gang https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fbi-warns-of-silent-ransom-group-in-person-data-theft-attacks\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-27 07:51:12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2026\/05\/27\/FBI.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-223267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223269,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223267\/revisions\/223269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}