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GwisinLocker ransomware targets South Korean industrial and pharma firms

Date (as written)
2022-08-09T05:00:00.000Z
Year
2022
Country
South Korea
Actors (as written)
Gwisin group (speculated North Korea based)
Actor pages
Gwisin group
Tags (as written)
industrial; pharmaceutical

Source entries (1)

ReversingLabs blog

GwisinLocker ransomware targets South Korean industrial and pharma firms · 2022-08-09T05:00:00.000Z
On July 19th in the course of threat hunting, ReversingLabs researchers discovered an undetected Linux ransomware sample which bore the markers of a Gwisin campaign. ... That could suggest that Gwisin group is a North Korea based threat actor, given that nation’s aggressive use of offensive hacking, including the use of ransomware, to target South Korean government agencies and private sector firms.
https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/gwisinlocker-ransomware-targets-south-korean-industrial-and-pharmaceutical-companies

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