Macaw is an obscure ransomware group that emerged in October 2021 with limited documented activity, appearing to be financially motivated based on typical ransomware operations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other threat actors remain unknown due to insufficient public reporting from major security firms and law enforcement agencies. With only one documented victim, the group's attack methodology, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported by reputable threat intelligence sources, though their targeting of the communications sector in the United States suggests potential focus on critical infrastructure. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly documented for this group, and there are no recorded law enforcement actions targeting Macaw operations. The current operational status of Macaw remains unclear due to the lack of recent public reporting on their activities since their initial observation in late 2021. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 16, 2021. The operation is currently inactive.
Sector and geography
This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Communication sector, which has 24 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sinclair Broadcast Group 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.
