Was Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation hit by ransomware?

Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation was listed by the brotherhood ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the brotherhood ransomware group?

brotherhood is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation breach?

brotherhood published data attributed to Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation

Claimed by Brotherhood · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 10, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Brotherhood
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Oct 10, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CISWO (The Coal Mining Charity) is a UK registered charity based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, dedicated to reducing disadvantage among former coal miners and their families. It supports over 200 independent mining charities, provides welfare, education grants, and end-of-life support to individuals, and acts as one of the UK's largest custodians of recreational land for former mining communities. In 2024, it supported 2,122 people and distributed over £164,000 in individual grants.

Industry: Charitable Social Welfare & Community Support (Coal Mining Communities)
Address: Rectory Drive, Whiston, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 4JG, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post explicitly contains no data and no proof files. While the disclosed status is 'data_published', there is no evidence of exfiltration, encryption impact, or sensitive data exposure provided in the post itself.

The Brotherhood ransomware group has listed CISWO under a 'data_published' disclosure status; however, the leak post contains no data, no proof files, and no ransom demand, making the nature and extent of any actual compromise unverifiable from available information.

low

What the group claims

Contains: NO DATA

Sources

Victim sitewww.ciswo.org.uk
Leak posthttp://brohoodyaifh2ptccph5zfljyajjabwjjo4lg6gfp4xb6ynw5w7ml6id.onion/

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About brotherhood

The Brotherhood ransomware group is a recently emerged financially-motivated cybercriminal organization first observed in October 2025, representing one of the newer entrants in the ransomware landscape. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security firms and law enforcement agencies, detailed information about their origin, country of operation, and specific affiliations remains largely unknown to open-source intelligence. Based on observed targeting patterns, the group appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies, focusing primarily on English-speaking markets including the United States, Australia, and Canada, while also targeting victims in Germany and Switzerland, suggesting either broad-spectrum initial access capabilities or acquisition of access through underground markets. Their victim selection spans multiple sectors including business services, construction, transportation and logistics, and technology companies, indicating a non-discriminatory approach typical of many financially-motivated ransomware operations rather than targeted campaigns against specific industries. With only 18 documented victims since their October 2025 emergence, Brotherhood represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware groups, and specific details regarding their encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence providers. The group remains active as of the latest available intelligence, though their limited operational footprint and recent emergence means comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further documentation by security researchers and law enforcement agencies. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 10, 2025; most recent post January 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 10, 2025Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation listed by brotherhoodon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by brotherhood

brotherhood has been linked to 18 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by brotherhood means Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on brotherhood'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.