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INC Ransom, also known as Incransom, INC, Gold Ionic, and INC Ransomware, is a financially motivated ransomware operation. Its activity includes victim listings and attacks affecting organizations across technology, manufacturing, health care, financial services, transportation, energy, education, and consumer-facing businesses. Reported victims span North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. An investigated INC Ransom affiliate intrusion against a Chinese technology company began with compromised VPN and Microsoft 365 accounts. The affiliate accessed cloud-hosted data, searched mailboxes and collaboration repositories for infrastructure information, enumerated Active Directory and enterprise infrastructure, and used remote administration protocols to pivot through the environment. It collected credential material including directory-service database data, registry hives, browser and DPAPI-related artifacts, SSH keys, and other credential stores. The affiliate targeted virtualization, backup, storage, and NAS environments, including VMware, NetApp, and OceanStor infrastructure. It used management APIs to enumerate and manipulate virtual infrastructure, attempted to alter administrative privileges and appliance credentials, and established port-forwarding tunnels to reach internal management services. Encryption was deployed to mapped network shares through a privileged scheduled task. Recovered INC payloads supported Windows, Linux, ESXi, and multiple processor architectures; the Windows encryptor supported local and network-share encryption, configurable encryption modes, service and process termination, shadow-copy removal, and path exclusions. INC Ransom operations have also involved data theft and public-leak pressure. The group maintains leak-site infrastructure, and it has claimed to exfiltrate confidential victim data prior to publication. Its use of affiliates is supported by the identified affiliate-operated intrusion.
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40 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
5 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
18 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 18 of them exploited in the wild.
CVE-2026-15409 affects SonicWall SMA1000 and is cited as an active zero-day exploited by UTA0533 and INC Ransomware.
Resecurity estimates that the exploitation of CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 could significantly aid Initial Access Brokers (IABs) in gaining unauthorized access to targets of interest. Both vulnerabilities have been added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.
INC ransomware is known to gain access to their target victims through spear phishing, valid account credentials from Initial Access Brokers (IAB) and exploitation of vulnerabilities in public-facing applications such as CVE-2023-3519 (Citrix Netscaler), CVE-2023-48788 (Fortinet EMS), CVE-2024-57727 (SimpleHelp RMM) and CVE-2025-5777 (Citrix Bleed 2).
INC ransomware is known to gain access to their target victims through spear phishing, valid account credentials from Initial Access Brokers (IAB) and exploitation of vulnerabilities in public-facing applications such as CVE-2023-3519 (Citrix Netscaler), CVE-2023-48788 (Fortinet EMS), CVE-2024-57727 (SimpleHelp RMM) and CVE-2025-5777 (Citrix Bleed 2).
INC ransomware is known to gain access to their target victims through spear phishing, valid account credentials from Initial Access Brokers (IAB) and exploitation of vulnerabilities in public-facing applications such as CVE-2023-3519 (Citrix Netscaler), CVE-2023-48788 (Fortinet EMS), CVE-2024-57727 (SimpleHelp RMM) and CVE-2025-5777 (Citrix Bleed 2).
13 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
94 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Conducted a ransomware attack against Westfield Public School District in New Jersey, United States.
Reportedly conducted a ransomware attack against Asfaltos y Pavimentos S.A. (Asfalpasa), a Spanish asphalt manufacturing, transport, and road-construction services company.
Conducted a ransomware attack against Trucka, a transportation and logistics company in Mexico.
Conducted a ransomware attack against Policlinico Triestino, a private healthcare network in Trieste, Italy.
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