Was The National Health Fund (NHF) hit by ransomware?

The National Health Fund (NHF) was listed by the pear ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the pear ransomware group?

pear is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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The National Health Fund (NHF)

Claimed by Pear · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 12, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Pear
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Aug 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The National Health Fund (NHF) is a healthcare organization. No further details are available from the leak post or public sources.

Industry: Healthcare Administration

Attack summary

Severity: low — Only listing/announcement with no proof files, no data inventory description, no operational impact stated, and no confirmation of exfiltration or encryption.

The ransomware group 'pear' has listed NHF among multiple victim organizations. No specific claims about encryption, exfiltration, or data types are detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

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What the group claims

The National Health Fund (NHF)

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for The National Health Fund (NHF)

Sources

Leak posthttp://peargxn3oki34c4savcbcfqofjjwjnnyrlrbszfv6ujlx36mhrh57did.onion

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 110 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post August 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 12, 2026The National Health Fund (NHF) listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 110 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full pear dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means The National Health Fund (NHF) appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on pear'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.