Was Cvlan hit by ransomware?

Cvlan was listed by the cyclops ransomware operation (Italy), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the cyclops ransomware group?

cyclops is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Cvlan breach?

cyclops published data attributed to Cvlan. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Cvlan

Claimed by Cyclops · listed 3 years ago

$5M

Ransom

demanded

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 23, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

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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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

Other recent disclosures by cyclops

cyclops has been linked to 7 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full cyclops dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cvlan is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by cyclops means Cvlan 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on cyclops'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.