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 162 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 24, 2023; most recent post February 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 19, 2025****patr**h**s.com listed by Cloakon 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.

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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patrhs.com

Claimed by Cloak · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 19, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Cloak
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Dec 19, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The victim appears to be a company with a domain matching the pattern '****patr**h**s.com', likely 'patriarchs.com' or a similar name. No public site content was available to confirm the company's activities, location, or scale. The sector is listed as Technology.

Industry: Technology

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no details on data type, volume, or sensitivity are available to elevate to high or critical.

The Cloak ransomware group has listed this victim with a disclosed status of 'data_published', suggesting data exfiltration has occurred. No further details on the nature of the attack or data at stake are available from the truncated post.

medium

Sources

Victim sites.com

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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