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warlock is a ransomware operator no longer publishing new disclosures. Darkfield has indexed 78 public victims claimed by this operator between June 11, 2025 and November 6, 2025. Warlock is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in June 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern spans both Western nations and Russia, suggesting possible opportunistic rather than geopolitically-motivated operations. Based on available victim data, Warlock has demonstrated capability to compromise organizations across diverse sectors including technology, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare, with their attack methodology and technical capabilities requiring further analysis by security researchers to establish definitive patterns regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration tactics. While the group has accumulated 78 documented victims across the United States, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and Turkey within their initial months of operation, insufficient public reporting from CISA, FBI, or major security firms exists to detail specific notable campaigns, ransom demands, or high-profile incidents. Given the group's recent emergence in mid-2025, their current operational status and potential evolution remain under observation by the cybersecurity community.

Most-targeted sectors

Most-affected countries

Recent disclosures by warlock

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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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warlock

78 victims indexed · first seen 1 year ago · last activity 7 months ago

78
Victims indexed
#83 of 356 tracked operators
5m
Active period
Jun 2025 → Nov 2025
10
Countries hit
top US · 12

At a glance

Status
inactive
First seen
1 year ago
Last activity
7 months ago
Onion sites
2 known endpoints
Primary sector
Not Found · 40 hits

About

Warlock is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in June 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern spans both Western nations and Russia, suggesting possible opportunistic rather than geopolitically-motivated operations. Based on available victim data, Warlock has demonstrated capability to compromise organizations across diverse sectors including technology, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare, with their attack methodology and technical capabilities requiring further analysis by security researchers to establish definitive patterns regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration tactics. While the group has accumulated 78 documented victims across the United States, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and Turkey within their initial months of operation, insufficient public reporting from CISA, FBI, or major security firms exists to detail specific notable campaigns, ransom demands, or high-profile incidents. Given the group's recent emergence in mid-2025, their current operational status and potential evolution remain under observation by the cybersecurity community.

References

1 link

External sources curated by the MISP threat-intel community.

Timeline

4 months
2025-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 192025-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 312025-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 112025-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 · 17
2025-06-01T00:00:00+00:002025-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Top countries

🇺🇸 United States
12
🇷🇺 Russia
5
🇯🇵 Japan
5
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
4
🇩🇰 Denmark
2
🇫🇷 France
2
🇵🇱 Poland
2
🇮🇳 India
2
United States dossier →Russia dossier →Japan dossier →United Kingdom dossier →

Top sectors

Technology
20
Financial Services
3
Telecommunication
3
Healthcare
2
Manufacturing
2
Agriculture and Food Production
2
Education
1
Construction
1
Technology dossier →Financial Services dossier →Telecommunication 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://elqfbcx5nofwtqfookqml7ltx2g6q6tmddys6e25vgu3al2meim6cbqd.onion
  • http://zfytizegsze6uiswodhbaalyy5rawaytv2nzyzdkt3susbewviqqh7yd.onion

Source

Updated 7 months 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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