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Sector

Ransomware in Media and entertainment

Publishers, broadcasters, studios and gaming.

  • 0claims, 7 days
  • 7claims, 30 days
  • 27claims, 90 days
  • 2026-10-07most recent claim

Leak-site listings are claims made by criminals, not confirmed incidents. Sector is assigned from the public listing with an automated classifier and a confidence score; 14% of claims in the last 30 days are not yet classified. If a classification looks wrong, tell us.

Activity, last 26 weeks

New leak-site claims per week against media and entertainment organisations.

Week of 2026-04-20: 0Week of 2026-04-27: 0Week of 2026-05-04: 0Week of 2026-05-11: 0Week of 2026-05-18: 0Week of 2026-05-25: 0Week of 2026-06-01: 0Week of 2026-06-08: 0Week of 2026-06-15: 0Week of 2026-06-22: 0Week of 2026-06-29: 0Week of 2026-07-06: 0Week of 2026-07-13: 0Week of 2026-07-20: 3Week of 2026-07-27: 2Week of 2026-08-03: 2Week of 2026-08-10: 5Week of 2026-08-17: 3Week of 2026-08-24: 3Week of 2026-08-31: 0Week of 2026-09-07: 2Week of 2026-09-14: 1Week of 2026-09-21: 2Week of 2026-09-28: 3Week of 2026-10-05: 1Week of 2026-10-12: 0
Claims per week, oldest to newest. Each bar is a full Monday-to-Sunday week; the newest bar is the current week so far.

Most active groups, last 90 days

  1. qilin 4
  2. inc ransom 3
  3. the gentlemen 3
  4. direwolf 2
  5. eclipse 2
  6. panzer 2
  7. 3am 1
  8. bluewhale 1
  9. booba team 1
  10. crpx0 1

Countries, last 90 days

  1. United States 8
  2. Unknown 2
  3. India 2
  4. Italy 2
  5. Mexico 2
  6. United Arab Emirates 1
  7. Argentina 1
  8. Austria 1
  9. Australia 1
  10. Colombia 1
  11. Czechia 1
  12. Germany 1
  13. France 1
  14. Japan 1
  15. Nigeria 1

Vulnerabilities with known ransomware use

From CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, newest first. The catalog is not sector-specific; if you run the product, patch it.

Added CVE Vendor / product Vulnerability
2026-08-18 CVE-2026-59310 Broadcom VMware vCenter Broadcom VMware vCenter Path Traversal Vulnerability
2026-08-05 CVE-2026-63077 JetBrains TeamCity JetBrains TeamCity Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
2026-07-29 CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password Vulnerability
2026-07-14 CVE-2026-15410 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Code Injection Vulnerability
2026-07-14 CVE-2026-15409 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability
2026-07-01 CVE-2026-45659 Microsoft SharePoint Server Microsoft SharePoint Server Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
2026-06-25 CVE-2026-12569 PTC Windchill and FlexPLM PTC Windchill and FlexPLM Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
2026-06-12 CVE-2026-35273 Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability

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Data sources

  • Source: CISA KEV
    updated 3 hours ago
  • Opening demands are read from leaked ransomware negotiation chats collected by Ransomchats (MIT licence), using an OpenAI language model. These chats are not a representative sample.
    updated 3 hours ago
  • Source: RansomLook
    updated 3 hours ago
  • Sector, country and region labels are inferred by SecuritySnares from the published organisation name using an OpenAI language model; treat them as estimates.
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