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holyghost

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HolyGhost is a ransomware group first publicly reported in July 2022, believed to be operated by a North Korean state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT43 or Andariel, a subgroup of the Lazarus Group. The group has been active since at least June 2021, using a double-extortion model that combines encryption of victim files with threats to leak stolen data via a Tor site. Early HolyGhost variants (BTLC_C.exe) used a custom file extension .h0lyenc, while later builds added more robust encryptio

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