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Cl0p

Russia-linked ransomware and extortion gang known for mass data-theft campaigns exploiting file-transfer software like MOVEit and Accellion.

Known aliases

  • Cl0p-affiliated operators
  • Cl0p ransomware gang
  • Clop

Current stories

securityConfirmed7 publishers

A Windchill RCE chain that never encrypts anything, and the June hunt window it opens

Suspected Cl0p operators chain a FlexPLM WSDL disclosure to CVE-2026-12569 for unauthenticated code execution. No encryption stage means ransomware-tuned detections stay silent.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 13%
Operator
Operator 64%
Investor
Investor 23%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption50
Hype gap−10
Incentives45
Confidence64
investConfirmed3 publishers

Kiteworks asks customers to power down for nine hours to guard against zero-day attacks

Kiteworks told customers to shut its file-transfer servers for nine hours this weekend after a federal warning. The company says its current release fixes every known flaw, so the outage guards against one it does not know about.

Publishers:einpresswire.com heise.de techcrunch.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 12%
Operator
Operator 63%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption50
Hype gap+25
Incentives65
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

ShinyHunters threatens to name companies that paid Clop after defacing its leak site

ShinyHunters defaced Clop's leak site, demanded an eight-figure sum and threatened to name firms that allegedly paid Clop in the Oracle EBS campaign. Only ShinyHunters vouches for its theft claims. The firms it would name are victims whose payments were meant to stay private.

Publishers:securityweek.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives75
Confidence35
securityConfirmed6 publishers

CenterPoint confirms a customer data theft it learned about from a dark web post

CenterPoint Energy's 8-K says an unauthorized party took customer personal information through an external-facing system. The person selling the file says it came out of a public API with no rate limiting.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 54%
Investor
Investor 21%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

ShinyHunters says a Grav upload flaw got it inside Cl0p's leak site

BleepingComputer confirmed a defaced page and an uploaded file on Cl0p's infrastructure. Everything past that is a criminal crew's own inventory, and the route it describes runs through the content layer.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption30
Hype gap+15
Incentives82
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

Mexico's cyber plan puts the phone number in 2026 and the scoreboard in 2030

The National Cybersecurity Plan 2025-2030 loads its operational machinery into a single legislative year. Firms operating in Mexico should budget for weak state incident response until it lands.

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption31
Hype gap+28
Incentives68
Confidence46
productOne report1 publisher

RingCentral lost 1.6 million records to a phone call, not a missing patch

ShinyHunters says it voice-phished a RingCentral employee. The vendor sells business telephony, and its core platform never broke. The control that failed was a person.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption71
Hype gap+16
Incentives69
Confidence56