GINC-APT-0560 · Criminal

Nwgen Team

Also Storm-0829, DEV-0829.

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