Disclosure context

About Moneymessage

Moneymessage is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security agencies, detailed information about their origin and affiliations remains largely unknown, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate as a smaller independent operation rather than a large-scale RaaS model. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across healthcare, business services, public sector, government, and financial organizations, with their 29 documented victims spanning geographically diverse regions including the United States, Italy, Argentina, Bangladesh, and Russia, though specific attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks attributed to Moneymessage have not been widely reported by established security researchers or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group appears to remain active as of available reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status is limited by the lack of detailed public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. The group has been linked to 32 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 29, 2023; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: money message.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 7, 2023Micro Star International listed by Moneymessageon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $7B

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Micro Star International is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Micro Star International

Claimed by Moneymessage · listed 3 years ago

$7B

Ransom

demanded

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 7, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Moneymessage
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 7, 2023
Ransom demanded: $7B
Estimated revenue: $7B

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Micro Star International (MSI) is a Taiwanese multinational technology corporation headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The company designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, desktops, and other computing hardware to customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. MSI is one of the world's largest PC component manufacturers with global distribution.

Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing (Motherboards & Graphics Cards)
Address: No. 69, Lide Street, Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1986

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exfiltration of BIOS source code and private signing keys represents an extraordinary supply-chain risk: leaked firmware signing keys could enable malicious firmware updates affecting millions of end-user devices globally. Combined with multiple internal ERP/operational databases, this is a critical-severity incident well beyond typical PII breaches.

Money Message claims to have exfiltrated MSI source code including BIOS development frameworks and private signing keys, as well as multiple internal databases (wwrlt2, eais, CTMS, ERP), threatening to publish the stolen data upon timer expiry.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

BIOS source code
Private signing keys
ERP database
CTMS database
EAIS database
WWRLT2 database

What the group claims

Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. MSI is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. MSI source code, including framework to develop bios, also we have private keys.We will publish stolen data when timer expires.Databases: wwrlt2, eais, CTMS, ERP.Revenue: $7BWebsite: msi.com

Sources

Victim sitemsi.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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