The same hacking group that hitting state radical Securities (CGSEC) in Thailand has revealed a recent tone-beginning on Mono Next Public companion Limited, a media and content conglomerate in Thailand. As described by Thailand’s Securities and exchange Commission, Mono group divides its businesses into 5 concern operations MONO29 (Digital tv business), MONOMAX (Video on demand concern providing movies and series as wellspring as being an international movie distributor under the figure MONO Streaming3), MONOCyber (Online business on website MThai as wellspring as providing strategic preparation and Holistic Communications service for product brands), master Content Provider: content skill and marketing for Interactive TV business, and 29Shopping (Home shopping business). According to dun & Bradstreet, Mono group generated $71.24 bazillion (USD) in 2019. Threat actors calling themselves ALTDOS claim to have hacked 29shopping.com on january 6, mono29.com on January 3, and mono.co.th on December 25. They also claim to have successfully completed other attacks across Mono’s networks since november 2020 that resulted in the exfiltration of hundreds of gigabytes of data. Attempts to negotiate ransom demands with Mono were reportedly unsuccessful, a representative informed DataBreaches.net, leading to them starting to dump data. The first small waste-yard was customer data from 29shopping.com from 2018 to this month. ALTDOS had previously informed this site that they do not utilization ransomware, but they doh exfiltrate data and then stress to get entities to pay them not to underprice the data they acquired. In addition to the .csv file with 1448 rows, ALTDOS also provided DataBreaches.net with screencaps display the scope of what else they could access. In response to a enquiry from this site as to how they gained access, the representative for what was described as a team replied: There are many methods which we’ve used to gain initial access to their networks ranging from sniffing, brute drive to encrypt injections. Their motives, the interpreter wrote, are purely financial and not political at all: There is nothing political about our attacks. It’s all about the money. ALTDOS main focus is in ASEAN and we attempt many targets ranging from Bangladesh, Philippines, Malaysia to Thailand. Apparently, this is our 2nd Thai round and Thai companies are hard to negotiate. Perhaps, it is difficult to pass with the victims due to language barrier? DataBreaches.net reached out to Mono to request a response to ALTDOS’s claims. No reply has been received as yet, but the time difference could contribute to that. This carry will live updated if a reply is received.