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yurei

Yurei is a ransomware group first observed in September 2025 whose payload is a minimally modified fork of the open-source Prince-Ransomware, using ChaCha20 encryption and propagating across SMB shares, primarily targeting food manufacturing, transportation, and IT sectors in Sri Lanka and Nigeria.

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Motivation
ransomware
Last seen
2025-09-09
Sectors
energy-utilities, agriculture-and-food-production, 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 claimnoblecorp.net listed by yurei

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

Actor Claimed
Last observed
Indicator1 indicator cataloged

Types: onion.

First listed
Victim claimwww.thepromisenig.com listed by yurei

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

Actor Claimed
First listed
Victim claimwww.midcity.lk listed by yurei

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

Actor Claimed

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

yureiCanonical Name

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