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Ransomware group

Minteye ransomware

5 victims listed on the Minteye leak site across 2 countries. Most recent disclosure .

Victims
5
0% of all tracked
Countries
2
Most: United States
Sectors
4
Most: Financial Services
First seen
Dec 2025
In this database

ThreatAI analysis

Compiled from the ransomware.live profile for Minteye and from this database. Figures and technique mappings are quoted from the source data, not inferred.

Who Minteye is

MintEye is a ransomware group with concentrated activity in North America, targeting professional services, construction, engineering, architecture, and logistics sectors, with victims documented in the US and Chile; limited public technical analysis is available.

Recorded activity

Disclosures attributed to Minteye in this database run from December 2025 to December 2025, totalling 5 victims — 0% of everything tracked here. Minteye has listed victims in 2 countries in this database, most often United States, followed by Chile. The sectors appearing most in its listings are Financial Services, Construction, Agriculture and Food Production.

YARA detection rules

minteye.yar 
/*
minteye ransomware
*/

rule minteye_Ransomnote
{
    meta:
        author = "ransomware.live"
        family = "ransomware.minteye"
        description = "Detects minteye ransomware ransom note or artifact"
        date = "2026-05-04"
        severity = 7
        score = 70

    strings:
        $name1 = "minteye" ascii nocase
        $name2 = "MINTEYE" ascii
        $onion  = "minteye.onion" ascii nocase

    condition:
        any of them
}

Community-contributed rules for Minteye, reproduced as published. Test them against your own corpus before relying on them: rule quality and false-positive behaviour vary by author.

Threat actor analysis

Minteye has disclosed 5 victims on its leak site, 0% of all ransomware listings tracked in this database. Its earliest disclosure here dates to December 2025.

The group has listed organisations in 2 countries, most often in United States (4 victims), followed by Chile.

By industry, its listings concentrate in Financial Services, Construction, Agriculture and Food Production — sectors that hold sensitive data or cannot tolerate long outages, both of which raise the pressure to pay.

Like most current ransomware operations, Minteye 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.

Generated from public leak-site disclosures aggregated via the ransomware.live API and updated automatically.

Minteye victims 5

Organization Disclosed
Cranford, Buckley, Schultze, Tomchin, Allen & Buie, P.A.
USUnited States
David M. Schwarz Architects
USUnited States
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
USUnited States
Keylogistics Chile SA
CLChile
Sponseller Group, Inc.
USUnited States

Frequently asked questions

What is Minteye ransomware?

Minteye is a ransomware threat group that has claimed 5 victims since its first known activity in December 2025. The group operates by infiltrating target networks, exfiltrating data, encrypting files, and threatening to publish stolen data on a dark web leak site if the ransom is not paid.

How many victims has Minteye attacked?

Minteye has claimed 5 victims in our database, representing 0% of all tracked ransomware attacks. The most targeted countries are United States, Chile.

Which countries does Minteye target?

Minteye has attacked organizations in 2 countries. The top targeted countries are: United States, Chile.

Which industries does Minteye target?

Minteye most frequently targets the Financial Services, Construction, Agriculture and Food Production sectors based on victim disclosures in our database.

Is Minteye still active?

Minteye's most recent victim disclosure in our database was on December 12, 2025. Ransomware groups frequently rebrand or go dormant; monitor this page and our ransomware map for the latest activity.