BITWISE SPIDER
- First seen
- 2021-07-01 00:00:00
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- organization
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:03:03
Targeted industries: financial-services healthcare-and-pharmaceutical manufacturing technology-and-telecommunications
Context
BITWISE SPIDER has recently and quickly become a significant player in the big game hunting (BGH) landscape. Their dedicated leak site (DLS) has received the highest number of victims posted each month since July 2021 compared to other adversary DLSs due to the growing popularity and effectiveness of LockBit 2.0.
Detection coverage
- 11 YARA rules
Malware & tools used
- LockBit (malware)
- LockBit (Windows) (malware)
- LockBit (ELF) (malware)
Reports & references
- CrowdStrike — Better Together Global Attitude Survey Takeaways 2021 (report)
- socradar.io — Lockbit 3 Another Upgrade To Worlds Most Active Ransomware (report)
- security.packt.com — Understanding Lockbit (report)
- Trend Micro — Ransomware Spotlight Lockbit (report)