Disclosure context

About direwolf

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. The group has been linked to 71 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 27, 2025; most recent post January 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 4, 2026PernelMedia listed by direwolfon the group's public leak site

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, PernelMedia is reported in France, a country with 472 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.

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Pernel Media

listed as PernelMedia · Claimed by direwolf · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 4, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: direwolf
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Jan 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pernel Media is an independent production company founded in 2009, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, with a presence in the UK. The company specialises in producing documentaries, drama series, and audiovisual formats distributed globally, and has been listed as a Realscreen Global 100 company since 2019.

Industry: Television & Documentary Production
Address: 13, Rue de Vanves, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Founded: 2009

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the leak post offers no detail on the volume or sensitivity of the data, and there is no indication of regulated PII, financial, or government data at scale.

The direwolf ransomware group claims to have attacked Pernel Media and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post provides minimal detail on the nature of the exfiltrated or encrypted content beyond a 'Media' category label.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Media/production files

What the group claims

Media

Sources

Victim sitepernelmedia.com
Leak posthttp://direwolfcdkv5whaz2spehizdg22jsuf5aeje4asmetpbt6ri4jnd4qd.onion/api/public/articles/55

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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