Ransomware peddlers have come up with yet another devious twist on the recent trend for data exfiltration. Clop was first seen in February 2019 as a new variant in the Cryptomix family, but it has followed its own path of development since then. In October 2020 it became the first ransomware to demand a ransom of over $20 million dollars. In response, Clops operators published confidential information they had gathered during the attack, on a dark web website.”]