Hellogookie is an emerging ransomware group first observed in April 2024, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, with no confirmed country of origin or established links to other ransomware operations reported by major threat intelligence organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited victim count of three documented cases, specific details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by reputable security researchers. The group has primarily targeted technology sector organizations within the United States, though the small sample size of known victims limits broader pattern analysis. Hellogookie appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence available suggests they operate as a relatively small-scale threat actor compared to more established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 3 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 19, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.
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, Hey cisco! 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.
