{
  "id": "fin13",
  "name": "FIN13",
  "aliases": [
    "Elephant Beetle"
  ],
  "domain": "cyber",
  "country": "UNK",
  "category": "Cybercriminal group",
  "status": "tracked",
  "fielded": null,
  "operators": [],
  "summary": "FIN13 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 achieves its objectives by stealing intellectual property, financial data, mergers and acquisition information, or PII.",
  "specs": [
    {
      "k": "sponsor",
      "v": "Financially motivated group",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g1016"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "active_since",
      "v": 2016,
      "src": [
        "mitre-g1016"
      ],
      "conf": "medium",
      "note": "At least 2016"
    },
    {
      "k": "attack_id",
      "v": "G1016",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g1016"
      ],
      "conf": "high"
    },
    {
      "k": "targets",
      "v": "FIN13 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.",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g1016"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "techniques_count",
      "v": 53,
      "src": [
        "mitre-g1016"
      ],
      "conf": "high",
      "note": "ATT&CK v20.1"
    },
    {
      "k": "software",
      "v": "certutil, Empire, Impacket, Mimikatz",
      "src": [
        "mitre-g1016"
      ],
      "conf": "high",
      "note": "4 malware and tool entries linked in ATT&CK"
    }
  ],
  "payloads": [],
  "variants": [],
  "art": "cyber",
  "image": null,
  "verified": null,
  "notes": "FIN13 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 achieves its objectives by stealing intellectual property, financial data, mergers and acquisition information, or PII. Description adapted from MITRE ATT&CK®, © The MITRE Corporation, used under the ATT&CK Terms of Use.",
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-08",
      "change": "Entry created from MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v20.1 (group G1016)"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.defensepedia.com/systems/fin13.html",
  "sources": {
    "mitre-g1016": {
      "title": "FIN13, Group G1016",
      "publisher": "MITRE ATT&CK",
      "url": "https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1016/",
      "published": "2026-07-31",
      "tier": 2,
      "checked": "2026-11-08"
    }
  }
}