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GLOBALMalwareRansomwareCyclopsRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

important information(Knight)

bd_d1641cfc66ac4481 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 26, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for important information(Knight)

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cyclops on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Not FoundDiscovered: 2023-07-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We are about to close the old panel and blog and in version 2. 0 we renamed it Knight. We are releasing the new panel and program this week.We are still recruiting new teams, but you must have enough experience. We have a major update in version 2.0 and our only contact TOX:9096AD7062A4232F5AA31C2F7C4DF0AC1EAD10B78D40A6A3328AD142A42B555E635954D8B6C5

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 26, 2023

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-06-29

cyclops

According to ransomware.live, Cyclops emerged in May 2023 as a cross-platform RaaS operation targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems; it rebranded as "Knight" in August 2023 and its codebase was ultimately sold, with affiliates largely migrating to RansomHub.

7 victims claimed globally7 tracked hereFull profile →