- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Seen
- to 2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G1050 · 3 techniques
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-1077 · water-galura
What it is
Water Galura are the operators of the Qilin Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) who handle payload generation, ransom negotiations, and the publication of stolen data for Qilin affilates recruited on Russian cybercrime forums. Water Galura have been active since at least 2022 and use a double extortion model where they demand payment for providing decryption keys and for refraining from publishing the stolen data to their leak site.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Secureworks
- GOLD FEATHER
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Qilin
- Tor
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org