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malekteam (also tracked as malek team) is a ransomware operator no longer publishing new disclosures. Darkfield has indexed 7 public victims claimed by this operator between December 24, 2023 and April 5, 2024. malekteam is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and small-scale operations. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their limited scope of operations suggests they operate as an independent entity rather than part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. With only seven known victims documented to date, malekteam appears to focus their attacks primarily on targets in Israel and Switzerland, with a preference for business services and healthcare sectors, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and whether they employ data exfiltration tactics prior to encryption have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting, notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in open-source intelligence reports from established security researchers. The group's current operational status remains unclear given the limited public documentation of their activities since their emergence in late 2023.

Most-targeted sectors

Most-affected countries

Recent disclosures by malekteam

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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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malekteam

aka malek team · 7 victims indexed · first seen 3 years ago · last activity 2 years ago

7
Victims indexed
#229 of 364 tracked operators
4m
Active period
Dec 2023 → Apr 2024
2
Countries hit
top IL · 5

At a glance

Status
inactive
Aliases
malek team
First seen
3 years ago
Last activity
2 years ago
Onion sites
2 known endpoints
Primary sector
Business Services · 2 hits

About

malekteam is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and small-scale operations. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their limited scope of operations suggests they operate as an independent entity rather than part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. With only seven known victims documented to date, malekteam appears to focus their attacks primarily on targets in Israel and Switzerland, with a preference for business services and healthcare sectors, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and whether they employ data exfiltration tactics prior to encryption have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting, notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in open-source intelligence reports from established security researchers. The group's current operational status remains unclear given the limited public documentation of their activities since their emergence in late 2023.

References

1 link

External sources curated by the MISP threat-intel community.

Timeline

3 months
2023-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 42024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 12024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 2
2023-12-01T00:00:00+00:002024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Top countries

🇮🇱 Israel
5
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1
Israel dossier →Switzerland dossier →

Top sectors

Business Services
2
Healthcare
1
Business Services dossier →Healthcare dossier →

MITRE ATT&CK

4 techniques · 3 tactics

Tactics

Initial AccessExecutionImpact

Techniques

  • T1566Phishing
  • T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application
  • T1059Command and Scripting Interpreter
  • T1486Data Encrypted for Impact

Recent victims

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Onion infrastructure

2 known
  • http://195.14.123.2
  • http://malekteam.ac

Source

Updated 2 years 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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