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Sun Direct

Claimed by Medusa · listed 1 year ago

12m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 6, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Medusa
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Telecommunication
Listed on leak site
Jul 6, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sun Direct is a leading provider of direct-to-home (DTH) television services in India, offering a wide range of television channels and packages for residential households and businesses. Headquartered in Avadi, Tamil Nadu, the company focuses on delivering high-quality content and innovative satellite television solutions.

Industry
Direct-to-Home (DTH) Television Services
Address
73 Mrc Nagar Main Rd, Avadi, Tamil Nadu, India

Attack summary

Severity: low — The post is a listing/announcement with no proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory disclosed. No confirmation of exfiltration or encryption impact is stated.

Medusa group claims to have attacked Sun Direct. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail the scope of operational impact.

low

What the group claims

Sun Direct is a leading provider of direct-to-home (DTH) television services in India. The company offers a wide range of television channels and packages tailored to meet the diverse entertainment needs of its customers. With a focus on delivering high-quality content and innovative technology, Sun Direct aims to provide seamless viewing experiences. Its intended clients include residential households and businesses looking for reliable satellite television solutions. company is headquartered in 73 Mrc Nagar Main Rd, Avadi, Tamil Nadu, India.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 6, 2025Sun Direct listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Medusa dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 172 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sun Direct is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means Sun Direct 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, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Medusa'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.