{"id":241528,"date":"2026-07-25T04:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/clop-ransomware-targets-windchill-flexplm-in-data-theft-attacks"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:13:27","slug":"clop-ransomware-targets-windchill-flexplm-in-data-theft-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/clop-ransomware-targets-windchill-flexplm-in-data-theft-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Clop ransomware targets Windchill, FlexPLM in data theft attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clop-ransomware-targets-windchill-flexplm-in-data-theft-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Clop ransomware gang (also tracked as Cl0p) is targeting Internet-exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM instances in a new data theft extortion campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Clop has reportedly been exploiting a critical improper input validation vulnerability tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2026-12569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2026\u201312569<\/a>, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Windchill and FlexPLM instances.<\/p>\n<p>As cybersecurity company ReliaQuest reported on Thursday, Clop operators have been deploying JSP webshells that allow them to exfiltrate sensitive data from targeted companies\u2019 compromised PLM platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clop ransomware gang (also tracked as Cl0p) is targeting Internet-exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM instances in a new data theft extortion campaign. Clop has reportedly been exploiting a critical improper input validation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026\u201312569, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Windchill and FlexPLM instances. As cybersecurity company ReliaQuest reported [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}