Cryp70N1C0D3 is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through ransomware operations. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest potential familiarity with victims in India, the United States, and Turkey. Based on available data, Cryp70N1C0D3 has maintained a limited operational scope with only 11 documented victims across their known period of activity, indicating either a small-scale operation or highly selective targeting approach. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, likely due to their relatively low profile compared to more prominent ransomware families. No significant high-profile attacks, major corporate victims, or substantial law enforcement actions have been publicly reported in connection with this group. Current intelligence suggests limited ongoing activity, though the group's present operational status remains unclear due to insufficient public reporting and analysis from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 11 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 18, 2021. The operation is currently inactive.
If your organisation is affected
A listing by Cryp70N1C0D3 means vaja.ir appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.
- Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
- Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
- Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
- Monitor for the data appearing on Cryp70N1C0D3's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.
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.
