RANSOMWARE OPERATION💰 FINANCIAL
darkangels
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Intelligence Profile
Dark Angels is a highly selective ransomware group active since April 2022 that targets a small number of large enterprises — including Johnson Controls — exfiltrating up to 100 TB of data per victim, and secured the largest known single ransom payment of $75 million from a Fortune 50 company in early 2024.
Threat Analysis
darkangels is a ransomware operation that deploys encryption-based extortion against organizations globally. This group maintains a data leak site (DLS) to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
Financially motivated threat actors like darkangels prioritize monetary gain through methods such as ransomware deployment, banking trojans, cryptocurrency theft, BEC scams, or credential harvesting for resale on underground markets.
Quick Facts
TypeRansomware Operation
Motivation💰 financial
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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.