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Macter International Ltd

listed as www.macter.com · Claimed by RansomHub · listed 1 year ago

17m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 17, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Pakistan
Listed on leak site
Feb 17, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Macter International Ltd is a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Karachi, Pakistan, with over 4 decades of operations. The company produces antibiotics, analgesics, antidiabetics, antifungal, and gastrointestinal treatments, along with biological and consumer health products. It operates as a contract manufacturer for major global healthcare companies and has distribution across 16 countries.

Industry
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Address
Karachi, Pakistan

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Healthcare/pharmaceutical company with regulated operations and potential access to sensitive manufacturing and product data. Data disclosure confirmed (disclosed status: data_published) but no specific proof inventory, data volume, or exfiltration details provided in the leak post.

RansomHub claims to have attacked Macter International Ltd. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what data is at stake.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business records
  • Manufacturing data
  • Product information
  • Research & development materials

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Macter International Ltd is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is among the leading pharmaceutical companies in the country. Macter manufactures a wide range of products including antibiotics, analgesics, antidiabetics, antifungal, and gastrointestinal treatments. The company is renowned for its quality, affordability, and competitiveness in both domestic and international marketplaces.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About RansomHub

RansomHub is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in February 2024 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat, compromising over 1,000 victims within its first year of operation. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, though their specific country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain under investigation by security researchers. RansomHub employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victims' systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met, with their attacks primarily targeting organizations in the United States, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and Italy. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors, suggesting they prioritize targets with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase the likelihood of ransom payment. Despite their recent emergence, RansomHub has quickly gained notoriety for their aggressive targeting approach and high victim count, with security agencies including CISA and FBI monitoring their activities as part of ongoing ransomware threat assessments. As of current reporting, RansomHub remains active and continues to recruit affiliates for their RaaS operation while expanding their victim base across multiple industries and geographic regions. The group has been linked to 1,032 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 10, 2024; most recent post March 31, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HUB.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 17, 2025www.macter.com listed by RansomHubon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.macter.com is reported in Pakistan, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by RansomHub means www.macter.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on RansomHub's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.