Disclosure context

About Marketo

Marketo is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2021 with primarily financial motivations, having compromised 32 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with no confirmed information available regarding their country of origin, connections to other cybercriminal organizations, or operational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on high-value sectors including automotive, healthcare, and government organizations. The group has demonstrated a geographic preference for victims in the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom, suggesting either regional operational capabilities or specific interest in these markets. Due to limited public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, ransom demands, or specific attack vectors remains unavailable in the public domain. The current operational status of Marketo is unclear based on available public intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 32 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2021; most recent post March 14, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 7, 2021spsr-law.com listed by Marketoon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Legal sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, spsr-law.com is reported in India, a country with 255 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, LLP

listed as spsr-law.com · Claimed by Marketo · listed 4 years ago

54m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 7, 2021
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Marketo
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Legal
Listed on leak site: Dec 7, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, LLP is a multi-practice law firm founded in 1979 and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The firm serves clients throughout Louisiana, the Gulf Coast, and beyond, offering services across areas including commercial litigation, maritime law, energy and environmental, insurance coverage, construction, and estate planning. The firm employs approximately 40+ named attorneys and is recognized regionally and nationally.

Industry: Legal Services (Multi-Practice Law Firm)
Address: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1979

Attack summary

Severity: high — A law firm handles highly sensitive attorney-client privileged communications, litigation strategy, financial records, and PII for potentially large numbers of clients. Data published status by Marketo (a data-broker-style group) implies exfiltration and public release, which constitutes significant exposure of sensitive business and client data.

The Marketo group has listed Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, LLP as a victim with a disclosed data_published status, indicating data has been published or made available. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data volume were captured in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Attorney-client privileged communications
Case documentation
Corporate and business records
Financial records
Personal identifiable information of clients and staff

Sources

Victim sitespsr-law.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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