Disclosure context

About clop

**Overview:** Clop is a prominent ransomware group that emerged in March 2020, operating primarily for financial gain through large-scale extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has demonstrated sophisticated capabilities and persistence, becoming one of the most prolific ransomware operators with over 1,250 documented victims globally. **Origin & Affiliation:** Clop is believed to be linked to the TA505 cybercriminal group and has suspected ties to Russian-speaking threat actors, though they operate as an independent ransomware enterprise rather than a traditional RaaS model. The group has shown connections to other malware families and has been associated with the FIN11 financial crime group. **Attack Methodology:** Clop primarily gains initial access through exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in file transfer applications, most notably targeting MOVEit Transfer software in 2023, along with previous campaigns against Accellion FTA and other file transfer solutions. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening public disclosure on their leak site if ransom demands are not met, utilizing their own custom Clop ransomware variant that employs strong encryption algorithms. **Notable Campaigns:** The group's most significant campaign occurred in 2023 when they exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer application, affecting hundreds of organizations worldwide including major corporations, government agencies, and healthcare systems, making it one of the largest ransomware campaigns in history. This attack alone impacted millions of individuals whose personal data was compromised across multiple high-profile victims including major payroll processors and financial institutions. **Current Status:** Clop remains active as of 2024, continuing to conduct ransomware operations despite law enforcement efforts and increased scrutiny following their massive MOVEit campaign. The group has been linked to 1,254 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 13, 2020; most recent post May 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Cl0p.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 14, 2026ANSTECHINC.COM listed by clopon the group's public leak site

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, ANSTECHINC.COM 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.

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Answer Technologies Inc

listed as ANSTECHINC.COM · Claimed by clop · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 14, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: clop
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Feb 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Answer Technologies Inc is a US-based managed IT services and technology solutions provider offering a full suite of services including IT support, network design, network security, disaster recovery, accounting solutions, integrations and upgrades, and website design and development. The company is reachable via a New York area phone number (646.249.9900) and positions itself as an affordable, all-in-one technology partner for businesses. Its scale appears to be that of a small to mid-size firm serving regional business clients.

Industry: Managed IT Services & Technology Solutions

Attack summary

Severity: high — Clop has marked this as data_published, confirming exfiltration and public release of data. As a managed IT services provider, Answer Technologies Inc likely holds sensitive client data including network credentials, configurations, financial records, and potentially regulated business data for its clients, making the downstream impact significant even if the company itself is small.

The Clop ransomware group has listed Answer Technologies Inc under a 'data_published' disclosure status, indicating that data exfiltration has occurred and data has been published. The leak post itself was non-substantive (a queue/redirect placeholder), so specific details about the volume or nature of published data are not available from the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client IT infrastructure data
Network configuration data
Accounting and financial records
Disaster recovery plans
Business contact information
Internal company communications

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim siteANSTECHINC.COM
Leak posthttp://santat7kpllt6iyvqbr7q4amdv6dzrh6paatvyrzl7ry3zm72zigf4ad.onion/anstechinc-com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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