Threat actor analysis
Deadlock has disclosed 110 victims on its leak site, 0.5% of all ransomware listings tracked in this database. Its earliest disclosure here dates to June 2026.
The group has listed organisations in 41 countries, most often in Italy (12 victims), followed by Spain, United States, Poland.
By industry, its listings concentrate in Manufacturing, Business Services, Other — sectors that hold sensitive data or cannot tolerate long outages, both of which raise the pressure to pay.
Like most current ransomware operations, Deadlock is likely to use double extortion: data is stolen before files are encrypted, and organisations that refuse to pay are named on the leak site with the stolen data as leverage.