DYSPHOR1A is a ransomware threat actor associated with intrusions and data-breach activity affecting organizations in Southeast Asia. Reported victims include entities in Myanmar, Indonesia, and Thailand across education, financial services, professional services, and government-related environments. The group has been linked to compromises involving student accounts, user accounts, administrative credentials, business data, academic records, financial data, and sensitive law-enforcement personnel information, indicating a strong emphasis on theft and exposure of victim data during ransomware operations. Some incidents have been characterized as "Normal Hunters" operations, suggesting an operational label or sub-cluster associated with parts of its activity. Based on observed victimology and incident descriptions, DYSPHOR1A demonstrates capabilities consistent with initial access, credential theft, exfiltration, and extortion-oriented post-compromise activity. The available evidence supports classification as a financially motivated ransomware actor, but does not support a high-confidence attribution to any specific nation-state or country of origin.
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Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
5 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
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Conducting a ransomware/data breach operation against Strategy First International College, compromising student accounts and exposing personal information, academic records, and financial data.
Conducting a ransomware attack against Job Net .COM.MM, compromising business data and exposing corporate information, user accounts, and business operations data.
Conducting a ransomware attack resulting in a data breach of the Indonesian Police Database.
Conducting a ransomware attack involving compromised user accounts and exposed Moodle platform credentials from GUSTO College GLMS.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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