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direwolf (also tracked as DIRE WOLF) is a ransomware operator currently active on public leak sites. Darkfield has indexed 75 public victims claimed by this operator between May 27, 2025 and June 12, 2026. Direwolf is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2025 with primarily financial motivations, having targeted 71 known victims across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, with no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and transportation/logistics sectors across Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. No major high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security researchers such as Mandiant. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, their current operational status and long-term threat posture remain unclear, requiring continued monitoring by the cybersecurity community to establish a more comprehensive threat profile.

Most-targeted sectors

Most-affected countries

Recent disclosures by direwolf

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How we know this. Operator profiles on Darkfield are built from continuous monitoring of every leak site the group is known to operate, cross-correlated with community-curated feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch, MISP-galaxy). Status flips from active to inactive when no new disclosure appears for 60 days. MITRE ATT&CK mappings shown in the interactive section below are sourced from CISA, vendor analysis, and the MITRE community catalog — we attribute each technique back to its source. Aliases reflect operator re-brands and affiliate splits.

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direwolf

aka DIRE WOLF · 75 victims indexed · first seen 1 year ago · last activity 1 month ago

75
Victims indexed
#87 of 364 tracked operators
1y 1m
Active period
May 2025 → Jun 2026
30
Countries hit
top MY · 9

At a glance

Status
active
Aliases
DIRE WOLF
First seen
1 year ago
Last activity
1 month ago
Onion sites
1 known endpoint
Primary sector
Not Found · 22 hits

About

Direwolf is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2025 with primarily financial motivations, having targeted 71 known victims across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, with no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and transportation/logistics sectors across Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. No major high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security researchers such as Mandiant. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, their current operational status and long-term threat posture remain unclear, requiring continued monitoring by the cybersecurity community to establish a more comprehensive threat profile.

References

4 links

External sources curated by the MISP threat-intel community.

Timeline

10 months
2025-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 82025-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 82025-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 122025-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 112025-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 22025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 22025-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 102025-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 62026-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 122026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 4
2025-05-01T00:00:00+00:002026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Top countries

🇲🇾 Malaysia
9
🇹🇭 Thailand
7
🇺🇸 United States
6
🇹🇼 Taiwan
5
🇸🇬 Singapore
5
🇹🇷 Turkey
4
🇧🇷 Brazil
4
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
4
Malaysia dossier →Thailand dossier →United States dossier →Taiwan dossier →

Top sectors

Manufacturing
11
Technology
7
Healthcare
7
Transportation/Logistics
5
Financial Services
4
Agriculture and Food Production
4
Construction
4
Business Services
3
Manufacturing dossier →Technology dossier →Healthcare dossier →Transportation/Logistics dossier →

MITRE ATT&CK

3 techniques · 3 tactics

Tactics

Initial AccessExecutionImpact

Techniques

  • T1566Phishing
  • T1059Command and Scripting Interpreter
  • T1486Data Encrypted for Impact

Recent victims

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Onion infrastructure

1 known
  • http://direwolfcdkv5whaz2spehizdg22jsuf5aeje4asmetpbt6ri4jnd4qd.onion

Source

Updated 1 month ago

Data on this page is sourced from the group's own leak posts, cross-checked with public ransomware trackers (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch), MITRE ATT&CK, and our own Tor and Telegram crawlers. This is a public observatory page — share freely.

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