Disclosure context

About shinyhunters

Based on the limited publicly available information, shinyhunters appears to be a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than sector-specific specialization. The group has reportedly victimized approximately 77 organizations, with primary targeting focused on the United States, France, Japan, Germany, and Australia, showing particular interest in consumer services, technology, financial services, transportation and logistics, and education sectors. Given the group's very recent emergence in late 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations, and no known law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. The current operational status of shinyhunters remains active based on available reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security firms like Mandiant, CrowdStrike, or government agencies have not yet been published due to the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 108 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 11, 2026Notification listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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.

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Notification

Claimed by shinyhunters · listed 10 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 11, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: May 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The victim is listed under the name 'Notification' in the Technology sector, but no public site content or additional context is available to provide a factual description of the company's operations, location, or scale.

Industry: Technology

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release, but the leak post contains no detail on data type, volume, or sensitivity, and the victim identity itself is ambiguous, preventing a higher classification.

ShinyHunters claims to have published data associated with this victim; the leak post references a file host server (91.215.85.103) expected to come back online within 24 hours, suggesting exfiltrated data was staged for download, though no specifics about the nature or volume of the data are provided.

medium

What the group claims

Our file host server 91.215.85.103 will be back online within 24 hours. | Updated: 11 May 2026

Source

Indexed 10 days ago

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