Was Speditionweise.de hit by ransomware?

Speditionweise.de was listed by the Cloak ransomware operation (Germany), 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 Cloak ransomware group?

Cloak 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 Speditionweise.de breach?

Cloak published data attributed to Speditionweise.de. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Spedition Weise GmbH

listed as Speditionweise.de · Claimed by Cloak · listed 2 years ago

27m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 8, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cloak
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Apr 8, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Spedition Weise GmbH is a Saxony-based freight forwarding and logistics company specializing in Swiss transport and European logistics services. They operate a 30,000 m² logistics park in Chemnitz offering transport, customs clearance, warehousing, and IBC container logistics across Germany, Switzerland, France, and Austria.

Industry: Freight Forwarding & Logistics
Address: Jagdschänkenstr./Otto-Schmerbach-Str., Gewerbegebiet Chemnitz Süd, Chemnitz, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: low — Only listing/announcement with no proof files advertised, no specific data types disclosed, and no operational impact stated. The group post is minimal and lacks substantive evidence.

Cloak ransomware group claims to have attacked Spedition Weise GmbH. The leak post provides minimal detail; no specific data exfiltration or encryption claims are elaborated in the truncated excerpt.

low

What the group claims

Country: germany

Sources

Victim sitespeditionweise.de

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Cloak

Cloak is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting scope with 162 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or data exfiltration practices, though their targeting patterns indicate sophisticated capabilities to compromise organizations across diverse sectors including business services, technology, healthcare, and manufacturing. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting victims in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, with the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy representing their primary geographic focus areas. Cloak appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the relative scarcity of detailed public analysis from major threat intelligence firms suggests either operational security effectiveness or a lower profile compared to more established ransomware operations. The group has been linked to 166 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 24, 2023; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 8, 2024Speditionweise.de listed by Cloakon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Cloak

Cloak has been linked to 166 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Speditionweise.de is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cloak means Speditionweise.de 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Cloak'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.