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V Foundation for Cancer Research

listed as D****v.org · Claimed by Flocker · listed 1 year ago

13m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 25, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Flocker
Status
Data leaked
Country
Saudi Arabia
Sector
Healtcare
Listed on leak site
May 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The V Foundation for Cancer Research is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding cancer research and supporting scientists. Founded by Jim Valvano, it operates on a model where 100% of direct donations go to cancer research, with administrative costs covered by an endowment.

Industry
Medical Research & Cancer Philanthropy
Founded
1993

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration from a healthcare/medical research nonprofit with likely access to sensitive donor, researcher, and research data. Data published status indicates proof has been shared. Nonprofit sector handling PII and medical research records constitutes significant sensitive data exposure.

Flocker claims to have compromised the organization's main server (v.org) and exfiltrated all data. No specific data categories or proof files are detailed in the truncated leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Server data
  • Organizational records
  • Potentially donor information
  • Researcher data
  • Grant administration records

What the group claims

For The Leadership Of D**a-C**e S*****s Inc We have compromised your main server D****v.org we also took copy of all […]

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Flocker

Flocker is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and having compromised at least 59 known victims within a short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, with no confirmed country of origin or clear operational model regarding RaaS capabilities established in public reporting. Based on available targeting data, Flocker appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies that have successfully compromised organizations across diverse sectors including technology, public sector, financial services, and transportation/logistics, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has demonstrated a notable geographic reach with victims identified across the United States, UAE, Taiwan, Canada, and Zambia, suggesting either broad targeting capabilities or affiliate operations, though no specific high-profile campaigns or major incidents have been publicly attributed to them by federal agencies or established security researchers. As of current reporting, Flocker appears to remain active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive threat intelligence regarding their operations remains limited in open-source reporting from authoritative cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 59 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 3, 2024; most recent post July 31, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 25, 2025D****v.org listed by Flockeron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Flocker

Flocker has been linked to 59 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 Healtcare sector. Geographically, D****v.org is reported in Saudi Arabia, a country with 44 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Flocker means D****v.org 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 Flocker'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.