Hacker groupG1050
Water Galura
Also tracked as GOLD FEATHER
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.
- Known attack methods
- 3
- Origin
- Russia
- Motive
- Financial gain
- First seen
- 2022
- Source
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, mapped onto the ATT&CK matrix. Each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
Used by this groupNot documented for this groupIn brackets: sub-techniques this group uses, of those that exist.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques
Resource Development
9 techniques · 1 used
Initial Access
11 techniques
Execution
20 techniques
Persistence
22 techniques
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques
Discovery
34 techniques
Lateral Movement
9 techniques
Collection
17 techniques
Command and Control
18 techniques
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques · 2 used
Resource development1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
Qilin
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.
Tor