RANSOMWARE OPERATION💰 FINANCIAL
desolator
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aliases
Intelligence Profile
Desolator is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2025, targeting construction and engineering firms in Latin America and Europe and technology companies in Asia, actively recruiting pen testers, initial access brokers, and social engineers via dark web forums to build an affiliate program.
Threat Analysis
desolator 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 desolator prioritize monetary gain through methods such as ransomware deployment, banking trojans, cryptocurrency theft, BEC scams, or credential harvesting for resale on underground markets.
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Quick Facts
TypeRansomware Operation
Motivation💰 financial
Aliases1
Also Known As
desolator
DLS Infrastructure
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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.