The Cl0p Ransomware Gang's Attack on Arietis Health

The Cl0p ransomware gang has attacked Arietis Health. Arietis Health is a healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions provider headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, USA. It also has offices in Noida, India, and Fort Myers, Florida, USA. Ashwini Kotwal founded Arietis Health in 2020 after reviving multiple RCM systems across multiple sectors and billing platforms. Arietis Health codes 1.8m charts annually, serves over 400 active facilities, and has over 5000 active providers. Cl0p posted Arietis Health to its data leak site on July 14th but provided no further information.

About Cl0p Ransomware

Cl0p is a major Ransomware-as-service (RaaS) platform first observed in 2019. Cl0p is a dangerous ransomware family because it has advanced anti-analysis capabilities and anti-virtual machine analysis to prevent investigations in an emulated environment like those commonly used by security tools. Cl0p is one of just a handful of threat actors that have developed a Linux version. While Linux has a tiny footprint in desktop computing, it runs ~80% of web servers and a substantial portion of embedded devices used in the healthcare field – and this means that Cl0p is likely actively recruiting new talent to help improve their platform and expand the scope of what and whom they can attack.