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Threat Actors kawa4096

Also known as: KaWaLocker

Description

Kawa4096 is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2025, targeting multinational corporations across finance, education, and services sectors primarily in the US and Japan, using partial-encryption (25% of each file chunk) with Salsa20 and a leak site styled after Akira's retro terminal aesthetic, claiming at least 11 victims. Known victims: 17

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Objectives

Ransomware
Financial Gain

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Ransomware

Details

Type
Criminal
Sophistication
Medium
Primary Motivation
Organizational gain
Confidence
80%
First Seen
Jun 19, 2025
Last Seen
Jul 28, 2025
Added
May 4, 2026
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