benzona
Intelligence Profile
Benzona is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in late 2024, targeting small to mid-sized organizations across manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and hospitality sectors using double-extortion tactics — encrypting files while exfiltrating data and threatening publication via a Tor-based leak site.
Threat Analysis
benzona is a ransomware operation that deploys encryption-based extortion against organizations globally. This group maintains a data leak site (DLS) to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
Financially motivated threat actors like benzona prioritize monetary gain through methods such as ransomware deployment, banking trojans, cryptocurrency theft, BEC scams, or credential harvesting for resale on underground markets.
Ransomware Victims (14)
CTIWATCH tracks 14 organizations claimed as victims by benzona on its data leak site, with attack dates, sectors and countries.
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