Threat intelligence / Group

Higaisa

[Higaisa](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0126) is a threat group suspected to have South Korean origins. [Higaisa](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0126) has targeted government, public, and trade organizations in North Korea; however, they have also carried out attacks in China, Japan, Russia, Poland, and other nations. [Higaisa](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0126) was first disclosed in early 2019 but is assessed to have operated as early as 2009.(Citation: Malwarebytes Higaisa 2020)(Citation: Zscaler Higaisa 2020)(Citation: PTSecurity Higaisa 2020)

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First seen2026-08-14

Last seen2026-08-14

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[Higaisa](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0126) is a threat group suspected to have South Korean origins. [Higaisa](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0126) has targeted government, public, and trade organizations in North Korea; however, they have also carried out attacks in China, Japan, Russia, Poland, and other nations. [Higaisa](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0126) was first disclosed in early 2019 but is assessed to have operated as early as 2009.(Citation: Malwarebytes Higaisa 2020)(Citation: Zscaler Higaisa 2020)(Citation: PTSecurity Higaisa 2020)

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to DLL

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to Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

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to Exploitation for Client Execution

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to Hidden Window

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to Internal Proxy

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to Local Storage Discovery

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to Malicious File

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to Masquerade Task or Service

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to Process Discovery

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to Protocol or Service Impersonation

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to Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

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to Scheduled Task

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to Scheduled Transfer

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to Spearphishing Attachment

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to Symmetric Cryptography

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to System Information Discovery

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to System Network Configuration Discovery

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to System Time Discovery

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to Visual Basic

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to Web Protocols

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to Windows Command Shell

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to XSL Script Processing

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mitre-attack

G0126

Malwarebytes Higaisa 2020

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2020/06/higaisa/

PTSecurity Higaisa 2020

https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/pt-esc-threat-intelligence/covid-19-and-new-year-greetings-the-higaisa-group/

Zscaler Higaisa 2020

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/return-higaisa-apt