RunSomeWares is an emerging ransomware group first observed in February 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting of high-value sectors. Given the recent emergence and limited public documentation, the group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unclear, though their operational structure suggests they may operate as an independent entity rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure sectors including financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing across the United States, France, and Thailand, suggesting sophisticated initial access capabilities, though specific attack vectors and encryption methodologies have not yet been publicly documented by major security researchers or government agencies. With only six known victims documented since their February 2025 emergence, RunSomeWares appears to be conducting selective, targeted operations rather than broad-scale campaigns, and no major ransoms or high-profile incidents have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence available suggests they are either maintaining a low operational profile or represent a relatively small-scale ransomware operation compared to established groups. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 27, 2025; most recent post August 13, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.
Also tracked as: run some wares.
Sector and geography
This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gilbert is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.
How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.
