Silence: Moving into the Darkside

Group-IB’s report profiles Silence, a small Russian-speaking financially motivated threat group that targeted banks across Russia, CIS and 25+ countries using phishing, modified state-exploit tools, custom backdoors and ATM/card-processing fraud; the document provides timelines of incidents (2016–2018), analysis of tools and TTPs, evidence of in-depth reverse-engineering skills and insider-like access to non-public samples, and includes IoCs, YARA and IDS rules to aid detection.