RANSOMWARE OPERATION💰 FINANCIAL
yurei
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Intelligence Profile
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.
Threat Analysis
yurei 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 yurei prioritize monetary gain through methods such as ransomware deployment, banking trojans, cryptocurrency theft, BEC scams, or credential harvesting for resale on underground markets.
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Quick Facts
TypeRansomware Operation
Motivation💰 financial
Aliases1
Also Known As
yurei
DLS Infrastructure
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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.