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Mag & Associates

listed as magcpa.com · Claimed by Warlock · listed 1 year ago

11m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 17, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Warlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 17, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mag & Associates is a CPA and accounting firm based in Burbank, Illinois, offering audit, accounting, assurance, tax planning, and consulting services to business clients. They specialize in tax strategies, FATCA compliance, and wealth management for small to medium-sized businesses.

Industry
Accounting & Tax Services
Address
5501 West 79th Street, Suite 300, Burbank, IL 60459

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by the group with no operational disruption stated, but the victim is a financial services firm handling sensitive client tax and accounting data. The vague 'all data' claim and absence of proof inventory or file count details prevent a higher severity assessment, though the regulated nature of the data and financial/PII exposure potential elevates this above low.

The Warlock group claims to have obtained 'all data' from Mag & Associates. The leak post provides no detail on the scope of exfiltration, encryption status, or specific data categories.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • client financial records
  • tax documents
  • accounting files
  • business correspondence

What the group claims

all data

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About warlock

Warlock is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in June 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern spans both Western nations and Russia, suggesting possible opportunistic rather than geopolitically-motivated operations. Based on available victim data, Warlock has demonstrated capability to compromise organizations across diverse sectors including technology, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare, with their attack methodology and technical capabilities requiring further analysis by security researchers to establish definitive patterns regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration tactics. While the group has accumulated 78 documented victims across the United States, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and Turkey within their initial months of operation, insufficient public reporting from CISA, FBI, or major security firms exists to detail specific notable campaigns, ransom demands, or high-profile incidents. Given the group's recent emergence in mid-2025, their current operational status and potential evolution remain under observation by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 11, 2025; most recent post November 6, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 17, 2025magcpa.com listed by warlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by warlock

warlock has been linked to 78 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,192 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, magcpa.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by warlock means magcpa.com 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 warlock'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.