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Storm-0530MISP-47945864 state
🇰🇵 KP
aka Storm-0530, DEV-0530, H0lyGh0st
Last updated: 2026-08-22
About this actor
H0lyGh0st is a North Korean threat actor that has been active since June 2021. They are responsible for developing and deploying the H0lyGh0st ransomware, which targets small-to-medium businesses in various sectors. The group employs "double extortion" tactics, encrypting data and threatening to publish it if the ransom is not paid. There are connections between H0lyGh0st and the PLUTONIUM APT group, indicating a possible affiliation.
Names & naming systems
Each vendor coins its own name for the same actor. Where a name follows a known scheme we attribute it; the rest are listed honestly as unclassified.
Microsoftweather-system names
Unclassifiedno scheme matched
How we know this
- Data origin
- MISP threat-actor galaxy Imported from the open-source MISP threat-actor galaxy.
- Techniques
- No ATT&CK techniques mapped.
- Named victims
- None on file.
Thin data: No ATT&CK techniques are mapped yet — the behavioural profile is empty.
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Activity timeline
- 2022 — 7 CVE published
- 2021 — 2 CVE published
- 2019 — 1 CVE published
- 2018 — 1 CVE published
Profile
| CVE | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | Published | Products |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2021-3018 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 0.7933 | 2021-01-05 | see CVE |
CVE-2021-45837 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 0.8108 | 2022-04-25 | see CVE |
CVE-2021-44142 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 0.7404 | 2022-02-21 | see CVE |
CVE-2022-22005 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 0.1721 | 2022-02-09 | see CVE |
CVE-2019-15637 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 0.2273 | 2019-08-26 | see CVE |
CVE-2022-24665 | 7.4 | 9.9 | 0.0260 | 2022-02-16 | see CVE |
CVE-2022-24663 | 7.3 | 9.9 | 0.0210 | 2022-02-16 | see CVE |
CVE-2022-24664 | 7.3 | 9.9 | 0.0165 | 2022-02-16 | see CVE |
CVE-2021-40684 | 7.1 | 9.1 | 0.0124 | 2021-09-22 | see CVE |
CVE-2022-24785 | 6.5 | 7.5 | 0.0566 | 2022-04-04 | see CVE |
CVE-2017-4946 | 5.9 | 7.8 | 0.0051 | 2018-01-05 | see CVE |
No techniques attributed.
Co-occurring actors
- Andariel 11 shared CVEs
- Maui ransomware 11 shared CVEs
- Lazarus Group 11 shared CVEs
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Overlapping CVEs
- Andariel 1.00
- Maui ransomware 1.00
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Active in same years
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- Maui ransomware 4.00
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Same nation-state
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- 3CX Supply Chain Attack 1.00
- Lazarus Group 1.00
- APT37 1.00
- APT38 1.00
Same category
- Night Dragon 1.00
- FunnyDream 1.00
- C0011 1.00
- Operation Wocao 1.00
- Operation Dream Job 1.00