Threat actor
FIN13
Last fetched
FIN13 is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 53 techniques and also known as 2 other names.
Also known as
TG2003, Elephant Beetle
Description
[FIN13](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1016) is a financially motivated cyber threat group that has targeted the financial, retail, and hospitality industries in Mexico and Latin America, as early as 2016. [FIN13](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1016) achieves its objectives by stealing intellectual property, financial data, mergers and acquisition information, or PII.(Citation: Mandiant FIN13 Aug 2022)(Citation: Sygnia Elephant Beetle Jan 2022)
Techniques by tactic
Discovery
- T1016 · System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001 · Internet Connection Discovery
- T1046 · Network Service Discovery
- T1049 · System Network Connections Discovery
- T1069 · Permission Groups Discovery
- T1082 · System Information Discovery
- T1083 · File and Directory Discovery
- T1087 · Account Discovery
- T1087.002 · Domain Account
- T1135 · Network Share Discovery
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to FIN13 today — this states the absence of a published link, not that FIN13 has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.mandiant.com/resources/fin13-cybercriminal-mexico
- https://blog.sygnia.co/elephant-beetle-an-organized-financial-theft-operation
- https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/8776530/Sygnia-%20Elephant%20Beetle_Jan2022.pdf
- https://www.netwitness.com/wp-content/uploads/FIN13-Elephant-Beetle-NetWitness.pdf
- https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1016
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220105132433/https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/8776530/Sygnia-%20Elephant%20Beetle_Jan2022.pdf
- https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/fin13-cybercriminal-mexico
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Related pages
Pivot from FIN13 into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.