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BlackCat Azure Storage Account RansomOp (Incident)

ID: 5ef50918-4eb2-5962-81b0-7501fa218cf9

STIX ID: report--5ef50918-4eb2-5962-81b0-7501fa218cf9

Feed Name: Wiz Cloud Threat Landscape

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2023-09-13

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

Author: [email protected] (Wiz Threat Research)

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BlackCat ransomware actors compromised a customer's Azure portal, retrieved Azure Storage account access keys (base64-encoded and embedded in the ransomware binary), and ran the binary multiple times with an '-o' argument to target and encrypt 39 Azure Storage accounts; the report references external coverage of this cloud storage-focused ransomware campaign.

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