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THREAT_ACTOR · G1050

Water Galura

Also known as: Water Galura, GOLD FEATHER

Profile

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.

MITRE ATT&CK ↗

Techniques

3 ATT&CK techniques attributed to this actor.

Software

2 malware/tools attributed to this actor.

TorQilin

Related corpus activity

744 indicators EXHIBIT techniques this actor uses. This is a shared-technique signal, not a first-party attribution to Water Galura.

IndicatorTypeFamilySevSrc
cve-2025-34054cve854
cve-2021-27137cve858
cve-2025-1055cveransomware853
cve-2026-4368cveransomware851
cve-2016-15047cve854
cve-2025-61155cveransomware853
cve-2023-44976cveransomware852
cve-2023-52271cveransomware853
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16474e9e4773fbc1e0b48a5025fad31b7f084b1beffb9a42687b4d01979885fehashransomware802
2528df60e55f210a6396dd7740d76afe30d5e9e8684a5b8a02a63bdcb5041bfchashransomware802
f0b3e112ce4807a28e2b5d66a840ed7fhashransomware802
4e4a3751581252e210f6f45881d778d1f482146f92dc790504bfbcd2bdfa0129hashransomware802
64a0ab00d90682b1807c5d7da1a4ae67cde4c5757fc7d995d8f126f0ec8ae983hashransomware802
72bed9b26a7747252156b65d24a9a737d70b9bf6aca069c514c1c7b9e04ef9b6hashransomware802
3e62797fd746ce9bd5d49cb833b7d9ac62d6b7a2hashransomware802
28a9982cf2b4fc53a1545b6ed0d0c1788ca9369a847750f5652ffa0ca7f7b7d3hashransomware802
8bd16897409ae5d5667c345276d2532f493c0f98hashransomware802
0b1870d57221eec6f3bbef648e71a724hashransomware802
f962e15c6efebb3c29fe399bb168066042b616affddd83f72570c979184ec55chashransomware802
259fd28f9e66159d5a30b86688fec184hashransomware802
42a99a5effdc1d02f6b622537de881e1hashransomware802
eead44c0af7ddb12cece1a6125cf213bab3c22511cd59aff9d63dcfddb7d4386hash804
54a6743781fd4ceb720331fce92f16186931192dhashransomware802
b0e292346b4ab3f83fadd8abcce7cfc5b9d50ef73ad141e8bc4a4689fee13504hashransomware802
686213cc11d36af764de824801bced9366dfca3823fe0d51b752f74149bcf1f4sha256ransomware801
edbf152ed9ac79e5d9e0111d1071af48hashransomware802
43f4ca1c7474c0476a42d937dc4af01c8ccfc20331baa0465ac0f3408f52b2e2hashransomware802
b0cfa2089802634ffb8c77962cdb18317a6332d4hashransomware802
7890b116d13a52efe696ce1e2c0ed83029775cf4bea836ce551e71d222ee116fhashransomware802

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