Netflim is an obscure ransomware group that emerged in November 2020 with apparent financial motivations, though limited public documentation exists about their operations. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely unknown, with no confirmed information about whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Based on available data, netflim has demonstrated targeting of commercial facilities, particularly within Canada, though their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by major security researchers or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to have maintained a very low profile with minimal publicly recorded activity, having only one documented victim according to available threat intelligence. Given the limited reporting on netflim since their emergence and the lack of recent documented campaigns or law enforcement actions, their current operational status remains unclear. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 1, 2020. The operation is currently inactive.
Sector and geography
This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Commercial Facilities sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Colliers International Group is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.
If your organisation is affected
A listing by netflim means Colliers International Group 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
- Monitor for the data appearing on netflim'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.
