Threat actor analysis
Zawoo has disclosed 27 victims on its leak site, 0.1% of all ransomware listings tracked in this database. Its earliest disclosure here dates to August 2026.
The group has listed organisations in 8 countries, most often in Germany (11 victims), followed by France, United States, New Zealand.
By industry, its listings concentrate in Professional Services, Manufacturing, Technology — sectors that hold sensitive data or cannot tolerate long outages, both of which raise the pressure to pay.
Like most current ransomware operations, Zawoo 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.