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Korea Petroleum

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

33m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 23, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
NoEscape
Status
Data leaked
Country
South Korea
Sector
Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site
Oct 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Korea Petroleum (koreapetroleum.com) appears to be a South Korean company operating in the petroleum sector, likely involved in the distribution, trading, or supply of petroleum products. Based on its domain and sector classification, it serves the energy and utilities market in South Korea. No further detail is available from the leak post or public site content.

Industry
Petroleum Distribution & Energy

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', meaning data has been actively released by the ransomware group. A petroleum/energy sector company in South Korea represents a critical infrastructure-adjacent target, and confirmed data publication elevates severity to high even absent granular detail on the data contents.

The NoEscape ransomware group has disclosed Korea Petroleum as a victim with a status of 'data_published', indicating that exfiltrated data has been released. No further details on the nature of the data or the scope of the attack are available from the captured leak post.

high

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 23, 2023www.koreapetroleum.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, www.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 www.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.