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 26, 2023important information（Knight） listed by cyclopson 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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important information（Knight）

Claimed by cyclops · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 26, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: cyclops
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jul 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The leak post does not describe an identifiable victim company. The entry appears to be an internal announcement by the Cyclops ransomware group rebranding their operation as 'Knight' (version 2.0), rather than a disclosure about an external victim.

Attack summary

Severity: low — No victim organisation, no exfiltrated data, no encryption claim, and no proof files are present. The post is solely an operator self-announcement and recruitment notice.

No attack on an external company is described. The post is a recruitment and rebranding announcement by the Cyclops/Knight ransomware-as-a-service group, including a TOX contact address for prospective affiliates.

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What the group claims

We are about to close the old panel and blog and in version 2. 0 we renamed it Knight. We are releasing the new panel and program this week.We are still recruiting new teams, but you must have enough experience. We have a major update in version 2.0 and our only contact TOX：9096AD7062A4232F5AA31C2F7C4DF0AC1EAD10B78D40A6A3328AD142A42B555E635954D8B6C5

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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