Was First Defense Fire Protection hit by ransomware?

First Defense Fire Protection was listed by the anubis ransomware operation (United States), 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 anubis ransomware group?

anubis 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 First Defense Fire Protection breach?

anubis published data attributed to First Defense Fire Protection. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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First Defense Fire Protection

Claimed by Anubis · listed 1 year ago

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Anubis
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

First Defense Fire Protection, Inc. is a fire sprinkler system design and installation company based in the United States. They serve retail, residential, and commercial clients including high-rise buildings, with departments for sales, service, engineering, and construction. The company emphasizes code-compliant systems and 24/7 service support.

Industry: Fire Protection Systems Design & Installation

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive infrastructure blueprints (fire protection systems for casinos, airports, and critical facilities) represents significant operational and security risk. Blueprint data for critical infrastructure and multi-use facilities poses potential safety and security threats.

The anubis group claims to have exfiltrated blueprints from First Defense Fire Protection and hundreds of other companies, including critical infrastructure sites (casinos, airports). The specific data types and volume related to First Defense are not detailed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Fire sprinkler system blueprints
Design plans
Project documentation
Infrastructure blueprints (casinos, airports, etc.)

What the group claims

Leaked blueprints for casinos, airports and hundreds of other companies.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About anubis

Anubis is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in February 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through encryption and extortion attacks. The group has demonstrated rapid expansion, accumulating 65 documented victims within a short operational timeframe. Given the group's recent emergence, limited information is publicly available regarding their specific country of origin, organizational structure, or confirmed affiliations with other cybercriminal entities, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent group or small-scale ransomware-as-a-service operation. Their attack methodology appears to focus on opportunistic targeting across multiple geographic regions, with victims concentrated primarily in the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, indicating either English-language proficiency or the use of automated tools that facilitate cross-border operations. The group demonstrates a clear preference for targeting healthcare organizations and manufacturing companies, followed by business services and technology sectors, suggesting they prioritize organizations with critical operational dependencies that may be more likely to pay ransoms quickly. Due to the group's recent emergence in early 2025, there is insufficient publicly documented information from established cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their specific technical capabilities, encryption methods, or whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics involving data theft and leak sites. As of current reporting, Anubis remains an active threat with continued victim acquisition, though the full scope of their capabilities and long-term operational sustainability remains to be determined as security researchers continue to analyze their activities. The group has been linked to 96 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2025; most recent post July 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 25, 2025First Defense Fire Protection listed by anubison the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by anubis

anubis has been linked to 96 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, First Defense Fire Protection is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by anubis means First Defense Fire Protection 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on anubis'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.