Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 155 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 27, 2026Birtcher Anderson & Davis listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Birtcher Anderson & Davis is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Birtcher Anderson & Davis

Claimed by worldleaks · listed 23 days ago

23d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Birtcher Anderson & Davis is a fully integrated commercial real estate investment and management company headquartered in Southern California (phone prefix 949, consistent with Orange County, CA). The firm focuses on acquiring, developing, and managing industrial, office, retail, and mobile home park properties primarily serving small business tenants across the US. Their portfolio spans multiple states including California, Texas, Florida, and others, with individual transactions ranging into the hundreds of thousands of square feet.

Industry: Commercial Real Estate Investment & Property Management

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, suggesting actual exfiltration and release occurred. However, no details on the type, volume, or sensitivity of data are available from the post, and the company handles commercial real estate transactions which may involve sensitive financial and tenant PII. Absence of specifics prevents a higher rating.

The worldleaks group has listed Birtcher Anderson & Davis under a 'data_published' status, indicating data has been published, though the leak post itself contains no specific claims about encryption, exfiltration methods, or the nature of the data disclosed.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 23 days ago

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