Last mentioned: Mar 26, 2026
Trend Report Release
Data confirms the paradox of falling global volume alongside surging activity from elite groups.
CL0P Surge
Security researchers identify a new wave of CL0P activity exploiting enterprise file-sharing vulnerabilities.
The Gentlemen Emergence
First high-profile supply chain attack attributed to 'The Gentlemen' is detected in Europe.
RaaS Disruption
International law enforcement task forces successfully seize infrastructure of two major RaaS providers.
While global ransomware incident volume has seen a notable decline in early 2026, specialized threat actors like CL0P and The Gentlemen are bucking the trend with aggressive campaigns. This shift indicates a strategic move away from high-volume encryption toward sophisticated, high-value data exfiltration and targeted extortion.
This page surfaces every story mentioning CL0P across our cybersecurity coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running cybersecurity beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where CL0P was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |