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Leidos

Claimed by Trigona · listed 3 years ago

38m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 25, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Trigona
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Defense & Aerospace
Listed on leak site
May 25, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Leidos Holdings, Inc. is a major American defense, aviation, information technology, biomedical research, and engineering company headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The company provides technology solutions and services to the U.S. federal government, including defense, intelligence, homeland security, and health agencies, as well as commercial clients. With approximately 47,000 employees, Leidos is among the largest defense IT contractors in the United States.

Industry
Defense & Aerospace IT Services & Engineering
Address
1750 Presidents St, Reston, VA 20190, United States
Employees
47000
Founded
1969

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Leidos is a major U.S. defense and intelligence contractor handling classified and sensitive government programs. Any confirmed data exfiltration from such an entity constitutes a critical severity event given the likely presence of regulated, sensitive, and potentially classified government and defense-related information at scale.

The Trigona ransomware group claims an attack on Leidos and has listed the disclosure as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. The leak post provides minimal detail beyond identifying the company; no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Undisclosed exfiltrated company data

What the group claims

Leidos Holdings, Inc. is an American defense, aviation, information technology, biomedical research, and engineering company.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Trigona

Trigona is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service operation. Trigona employs double extortion tactics, combining data encryption with data exfiltration and threats to publish stolen information on leak sites, though specific details about their initial access vectors and encryption methods have not been extensively documented by major security researchers. The group has claimed 49 victims as of current reporting, with their attacks concentrated in the United States, Australia, Mexico, France, and Indonesia, primarily targeting business services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and finance sectors. Given the group's recent emergence in 2023, there are no widely reported major campaigns or significant law enforcement actions documented by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Trigona appears to remain active as of current intelligence assessments, though the limited public documentation reflects their relatively recent entry into the ransomware landscape. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 17, 2023; most recent post March 30, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 25, 2023Leidos listed by Trigonaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Trigona

Trigona has been linked to 49 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 Defense & Aerospace sector, which has 37 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Leidos is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Trigona means Leidos 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 Trigona'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.