- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- North Korea(high confidence)
- Sources
- 5 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0407 · h0lygh0st
North KoreaWhat it is
H0lyGh0st is a North Korean threat actor that has been active since June 2021. They are responsible for developing and deploying the H0lyGh0st ransomware, which targets small-to-medium businesses in various sectors. The group employs "double extortion" tactics, encrypting data and threatening to publish it if the ransom is not paid. There are connections between H0lyGh0st and the PLUTONIUM APT group, indicating a possible affiliation.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Microsoft
- Storm-0530, DEV-0530
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)North Korea
- MicrosoftNorth Korea
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)North Korea
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Gh0st RAT
- Small-Net
- gh0st
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de