Mindware is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that first emerged in May 2022, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware families remain undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reporting from major security vendors and government agencies. Due to limited public documentation from established sources such as CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, specific details regarding Mindware's attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration capabilities have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported. The group has been linked to approximately 13 known victims since its emergence, though detailed information about notable campaigns, high-profile targets, or significant ransom demands has not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. Current intelligence suggests Mindware remains a low-profile threat actor with limited visibility in the broader ransomware landscape, and its current operational status remains unclear due to insufficient public reporting on the group's recent activities. The group has been linked to 13 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 5, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.
If your organisation is affected
A listing by Mindware means thebureau 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 Mindware'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.
