hacker-news · Crawled Jul 25, 2026
DevMan RaaS Portal Centralizes Payload Builds, Victim Management, and Affiliate Payouts
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AI Summary
DevMan, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation also tracked as Funky Mantis, operates a centralized affiliate portal enabling payload generation, victim management, and payout coordination. The group evolved from affiliations with Qilin, DragonForce, and others, maintaining strong technical similarities to DragonForce ransomware. DevMan promotes attacks on critical infrastructure, including a specialized SCADA-targeting locker designed to cause physical system damage. The operation enforces strict governance over affiliates, uses an 80-20 revenue split, and has claimed 184 victims, primarily in the U.S. across technology, healthcare, and government sectors.
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Extracted Entities 4 found
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 63 techniques
T1053 Scheduled Task/Job · Execution T1078 Valid Accounts · Defense Evasion T1082 System Information Discovery · Discovery T1083 File and Directory Discovery · Discovery T1098 Account Manipulation · Persistence T1110 Brute Force · Credential Access T1133 External Remote Services · Persistence T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application · Initial Access T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1222 File and Directory Permissions Modification · Defense Evasion T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact · Impact T1490 Inhibit System Recovery · Impact T1566 Phishing · Initial Access T1573 Encrypted Channel · Command And Control T1588 Obtain Capabilities · Resource Development T1018 Remote System Discovery · Discovery T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol · Lateral Movement T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares · Lateral Movement T1033 System Owner/User Discovery · Discovery T1046 Network Service Discovery · Discovery T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation · Execution T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol · Exfiltration T1057 Process Discovery · Discovery T1059.001 PowerShell · Execution T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs · Defense Evasion T1086 T1086 T1087.002 Domain Account · Discovery T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer · Command And Control T1110.003 Password Spraying · Credential Access T1112 Modify Registry · Defense Evasion T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution · Execution T1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion · Defense Evasion T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution · Defense Evasion T1222.001 Windows File and Directory Permissions Modification · Defense Evasion T1482 Domain Trust Discovery · Discovery T1484.001 Group Policy Modification · Defense Evasion T1485 Data Destruction · Impact T1489 Service Stop · Impact T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account · Exfiltration T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder · Persistence T1558 Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets · Credential Access T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools · Defense Evasion T1569 System Services · Execution T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer · Lateral Movement T1589 Gather Victim Identity Information · Reconnaissance T1595 Active Scanning · Reconnaissance T1599 Network Boundary Bridging · Defense Evasion T1650 Acquire Access · Resource Development T1021.003 Distributed Component Object Model · Lateral Movement T1055 Process Injection · Defense Evasion T1056.001 Keylogging · Collection T1071.001 Web Protocols · Command And Control T1071.004 DNS · Command And Control T1114 Email Collection · Collection T1120 Peripheral Device Discovery · Discovery T1132 Data Encoding · Command And Control T1202 Indirect Command Execution · Defense Evasion T1491 Defacement · Impact T1542 Pre-OS Boot · Defense Evasion T1543.003 Windows Service · Persistence T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle · Credential Access T1588.001 Malware · Resource Development T1659 Content Injection · Initial Access