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Korea Petroleum

listed as koreapetroleum.com · Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

33m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
NoEscape
Status
Data leaked
Country
South Korea
Sector
Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Korea Petroleum (koreapetroleum.com) appears to be a petroleum-related company based in South Korea operating in the energy and utilities sector. Based on the domain and sector classification, the company is likely involved in petroleum distribution, trading, or related energy services. No additional details are available from the public site or leak post.

Industry
Petroleum Distribution & Energy

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', confirming that data has been released by the threat actor. NoEscape is known for both encryption and exfiltration. A petroleum/energy sector victim in South Korea represents a potentially significant target; however, the absence of a leak post or data inventory prevents classification as 'critical' without evidence of regulated PII, financial, or government data at scale.

The NoEscape ransomware group claims an attack against Korea Petroleum, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating that data has been released. No further details on the nature of the exfiltrated or encrypted data are available from the captured leak post.

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Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2023koreapetroleum.com listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by NoEscape

NoEscape has been linked to 249 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy & Utilities sector, which has 163 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, koreapetroleum.com is reported in South Korea, a country with 48 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by NoEscape means koreapetroleum.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, KrCERT/CC (South Korea), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on NoEscape's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.