cloak
Active since 2023-08-24
Unverified threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
Attribution, victim identity, and counts shown here derive from cloak's public extortion-blog claims, aggregated by ransomware.live. They have not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat them as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
According to ransomware.live, the group claims:
Cloak is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since late 2022, primarily targeting small-to-medium enterprises in Europe — especially Germany — across manufacturing, healthcare, education, and government sectors, with expansion into North American and Asian targets by 2025.
Source: Ransomware.live