Disclosure context

About coinbasecartel

CoinbaseCartel is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025 with financially motivated operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity in a short timeframe, compromising at least 102 known victims primarily across the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. Their targeting patterns show a preference for technology companies, financial services organizations, manufacturing entities, and consumer services businesses, suggesting an opportunistic approach focused on organizations likely to have both valuable data and the financial resources to pay ransoms. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, details regarding their specific attack methodologies, infrastructure, and organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to maintain active operations as of late 2025, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further investigation and reporting by established threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 176 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 15, 2025; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: coinbase cartel.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 11, 2026Alpinion listed by coinbasecartelon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Alpinion is reported in KR, a country with 15 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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Alpinion

Claimed by coinbasecartel · listed 10 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 11, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: coinbasecartel
Status: Data leaked
Country: KR
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: May 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Alpinion Medical Systems Co., Ltd. is a South Korean medical device company and member of the Iljin Group, specializing in the development and manufacture of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound imaging systems, HIFU systems, and transducers. Headquartered in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, South Korea, the company serves healthcare providers globally across general imaging, obstetrics and gynecology, and cardiovascular fields. It maintains branch offices in the USA, Germany, and China, and distributes products through partners in approximately 80 countries.

Industry: Medical Devices — Ultrasound Imaging Systems
Address: 2~4F, 15, Magokjungang 14-ro, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Founded: 2010

Attack summary

Severity: high — Alpinion is a medical device manufacturer operating in the healthcare sector; data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of company data. While specific data categories are not enumerated, a healthcare-sector company breach with confirmed publication warrants high severity, with potential exposure of proprietary R&D, business, and possibly regulated data.

The coinbasecartel ransomware group claims an attack on Alpinion with a disclosed status of 'data_published', indicating that data has been exfiltrated and published. The specific data categories and volume have not been enumerated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated company data (categories unspecified)

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Alpinion is a South Korean medical device company specializing in the development and manufacture of ultrasound imaging systems and transducers. Founded in 2010 as a spin-off from Samsung, the company serves healthcare providers globally, offering diagnostic ultrasound solutions for radiology, cardiology, and point-of-care applications. Alpinion is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, and operates internationally across multiple markets.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

System Breach • Coinbasecartel We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss CRITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS &times; Contact Update We have changed our contact method. We now exclusively use qTox Messenger for all communications. SimpleX and Session have been discontinued. Our Tox ID: A7580331D4D16453CCE86D7ADFBCF0CEED0D0D1AEA8F4DBEEBCA9E3B46308F260DE9B41BD838 TO APTIM You may have noticed the sudden, heavy silence. The corporate VPNs are dead. We have been the silent architects of your network for the past three weeks. While your &#34;elite&#34; investigators from Mandiant sat in your logs, we sat directly beside them burning through over a hundred of your corporate identities like disposable tools. we have had your entire network and internal protocols. HOW LONG WILL YOU KEEP YOUR THOUSANDS OF FIELD WORKERS LOCKED OUT? We have successfully exfiltrated the most sensitive engineering data held by any firm in your sectors We hold the complete Navisworks 3D models, P&amp;ID diagrams, and maintenance logic for your major energy plants. This includes the granular Honeywell DCS controller logic. We know…

Sources

Victim sitealpinion.com
Leak posthttp://fjg4zi4opkxkvdz7mvwp7h6goe4tcby3hhkrz43pht4j3vakhy75znyd.onion/companies/alpinion

Source

Indexed 10 days ago

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