Overview
Dire Wolf is a sophisticated human-operated ransomware group first documented in May 2025, written in Golang using Curve25519/ChaCha20 encryption, targeting manufacturing and technology sectors across 13+ countries with ransoms up to $500,000, operated by a tight core team rather than a broad affiliate program.
Geography: origin and targets
No public attribution of origin. Lines are drawn only where public reporting places the operators; flags show where the group has claimed victims, sized by number of claims.
United States of America32
Malaysia11
Brazil9
Thailand9
United Kingdom7
Türkiye5
Taiwan, Province of China5
Singapore5
Sweden4
Italy3
Exploited vulnerabilities
None recorded in the sources we reviewed.
ATT&CK techniques
None recorded in the sources we reviewed.
Tools
None recorded in the sources we reviewed.
Leak-site infrastructure
| Title | Type | Address (defanged) | Seen online at snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| DireWolf | DLS | direwolfcdkv5whaz2spehizdg22jsuf5aeje4asmetpbt6ri4jnd4qd[.]onion | No |
Sources and caveats
Group descriptions, ATT&CK mappings, tools and leak-site locations come from public ransomware tracking projects, including ransomware.live and Crocodyli. Exploited vulnerabilities come from the Ransomware-Vulnerability-Matrix by BushidoUK (licensed CC BY 4.0), supplemented where a group profile there is newer than the data we hold. Each CVE links to its original research source. Technical text is shown in English as published. Leak-site addresses are defanged and shown for blocking and detection; do not visit them. Nothing here is verified by ClairSec_ against a specific incident.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-11