Clop

As of Oct 19, 2026, Clop has listed 1,549 confirmed victims on its leak site since Dec 22, 2022, 4.8% of all victims tracked by Brandefense. Its most targeted country is United States (59.6% of its victims) and its most targeted sector is Financial Services.

The ransomware group known as Cl0p is a variant of a previously known strain dubbed CryptoMix. It is worth noting that this variant was delivered as the final payload in a phishing campaign in 2019 and was exclusively financially motivated, with attacks carried out by the threat actors TA505. At that time, malicious actors sent phishing emails that led to a macro-enabled document that would drop a loader called 'Get2.' After gaining an initial foothold in the system or infrastructure, the actors began using reconnaissance, lateral movement, and exfiltration techniques to prepare for the…