Disclosure context

About cyclops

Cyclops is a relatively minor ransomware group that emerged in July 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations and maintaining a low profile compared to established ransomware families. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available regarding their operational structure or potential ties to other cybercriminal organizations. Based on available data, Cyclops has demonstrated geographically diverse targeting patterns, with documented victims spanning Australia, China, and Guatemala, though their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively analyzed or reported by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. With only seven known victims documented since their emergence, the group represents a relatively small-scale operation that has not conducted any widely publicized high-profile attacks or drawn significant attention from cybersecurity researchers or law enforcement disruption efforts. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active but operates at a scale significantly below major ransomware families that typically dominate threat landscape reporting. The group has been linked to 7 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 1, 2023; most recent post July 26, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 23, 2023Cvlan listed by cyclopson the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $5M

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cvlan is reported in Italy, a country with 496 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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Cvlan

Claimed by cyclops · listed 3 years ago

$5M

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 23, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: cyclops
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jul 23, 2023
Ransom demanded: $5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cvlan Srl is an Italian company operating in the Information Technology and Services industry. It employs between 21 and 50 people and generates estimated annual revenue of $5M–$10M. The company is based in Italy and operates under the domain cvlan.it.

Industry: Information Technology & Services
Employees: 21-50

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (disclosed status: data_published) with a public download link, indicating successful exfiltration of business data from an IT services firm; scope of sensitive content is unknown but publication represents a significant business data exposure.

The Cyclops ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Cvlan Srl and has published a link to the stolen data via AnonFiles, indicating confirmed data exfiltration with public disclosure.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated company files (published archive)

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

Cvlan( Srl is a company that operates in the Information Technology and Services industry. It employs 21-50 people and has $5M-$10M of revenue.Site:========www.cvlan.itData:========https://anonfiles.com/q659Yeyczb/lift_me_zip

Sources

Victim sitecvlan.it

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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