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kawa4096

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.

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Motivation
ransomware
Last seen
2025-07-28
Sectors
healthcare, financial-services, technology, other, government-defense, retail-e-commerce
Status
Dormant

Activity timeline

A dated ledger of actor-claimed victims, campaigns, indicators, identity mappings, relationships, and CVE links. Each date states what it measures. For extensive leak-site histories, victim entries are limited to the 100 most recent distinct listings.

First listed
Victim claim********.org listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Last observed
Indicator1 indicator cataloged

Types: onion.

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Victim claim**********.net listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claim**********.com listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimsbamh.org listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimcarestlhealth.org listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claim*************.org listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimwww.ogr-jp.com listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claim**********-*******.co.jp listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimtokiomarine-nichido.co.jp listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimgatewaycsb.org listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claim******.com listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimwww.malonebailey.com listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimheimhaus.de listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claim******.de listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimMorningsideservices listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Victim claimicmconv.com listed by kawa4096

Actor-claimed victim evidence. This listing is not independent confirmation of compromise.

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Identity and attribution

Exact names and tracking identifiers resolve to this canonical profile. Rebrands, affiliations, and overlapping clusters remain separate confidence-rated relationships.

Name map

kawa4096Canonical Name

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