- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Sources
- 4 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0560 · nwgen-team
What it is
Nwgen is a group that focuses on data exfiltration and ransomware activities. They have been found to share techniques with other threat groups such as Karakurt, Lapsus$, and Yanluowang. Nwgen has been observed carrying out attacks and deploying ransomware, encrypting files and demanding a ransom of $150,000 in Monero cryptocurrency for the decryption software.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Microsoft
- Storm-0829, DEV-0829
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de