kawa4096
Intelligence Profile
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.
Threat Analysis
kawa4096 is a ransomware operation that deploys encryption-based extortion against organizations globally. This group maintains a data leak site (DLS) to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
Financially motivated threat actors like kawa4096 prioritize monetary gain through methods such as ransomware deployment, banking trojans, cryptocurrency theft, BEC scams, or credential harvesting for resale on underground markets.
Ransomware Victims (17)
CTIWATCH tracks 17 organizations claimed as victims by kawa4096 on its data leak site, with attack dates, sectors and countries.
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