Clifford Paper

Clifford Paper was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to qilin in October 2025. The organization, operating in the Manufacturing sector in United States, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

qilin operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Clifford Paper is a family-owned business with a deep legacy in the forest products industry, operating since 1985. They specialize in providing paper products and value-added services, focusing on production management and packaging solution ...

Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-0257, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.