Disclosure context

About coinbasecartel

CoinbaseCartel is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025 with financially motivated operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity in a short timeframe, compromising at least 102 known victims primarily across the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. Their targeting patterns show a preference for technology companies, financial services organizations, manufacturing entities, and consumer services businesses, suggesting an opportunistic approach focused on organizations likely to have both valuable data and the financial resources to pay ransoms. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, details regarding their specific attack methodologies, infrastructure, and organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to maintain active operations as of late 2025, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further investigation and reporting by established threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 176 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 15, 2025; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: coinbase cartel.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 23, 2026Aptim listed by coinbasecartelon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Aptim 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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Aptim

Claimed by coinbasecartel · listed 28 days ago

27d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 23, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: coinbasecartel
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

APTIM is a US-based engineering, program management, and technical services company operating primarily in environmental remediation, infrastructure, and energy sectors. The company serves federal government agencies, industrial clients, and utilities across the United States. APTIM was formed in 2017 following CB&I's sale of its environmental and infrastructure services division.

Industry: Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering Services
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 2017

Attack summary

Severity: high — Publication of Kerberos pre-authentication hashes (AS-REP/krb5pa type 23) demonstrates confirmed deep Active Directory compromise of a significant US federal contractor. Credential exfiltration at domain level implies broad internal access; APTIM's federal government clientele elevates potential downstream risk.

The coinbasecartel group claims to have compromised APTIM's Active Directory environment, publishing Kerberos pre-authentication (krb5pa) password hashes for the aptim.com domain as proof of access, indicating deep internal network penetration. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of internal credentials and potentially broader data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Active Directory Kerberos authentication hashes
Domain credentials (aptim.com)
Internal network access artifacts

The group's post references roughly 2 proof files.

What the group claims

$krb5pa$23$APTIM.COM$APTIM.COM$$9936cd67a6d3d8560aaa25bb4a7a03b0bb8dfbbdbac8fed06e9262c41dce5ee567d0f7b52928d3626e43c0a7cfac4fb1a9b90887 $krb5pa$23$aptim.com$aptim.com$f7a8e75a2c6d3610fe9f4b34bec2a...

The leak post

captured from the group's site

System Breach • Coinbasecartel We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss CRITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS &times; Contact Update We have changed our contact method. We now exclusively use qTox Messenger for all communications. SimpleX and Session have been discontinued. Our Tox ID: A7580331D4D16453CCE86D7ADFBCF0CEED0D0D1AEA8F4DBEEBCA9E3B46308F260DE9B41BD838 TO APTIM You may have noticed the sudden, heavy silence. The corporate VPNs are dead. We have been the silent architects of your network for the past three weeks. While your &#34;elite&#34; investigators from Mandiant sat in your logs, we sat directly beside them burning through over a hundred of your corporate identities like disposable tools. we have had your entire network and internal protocols. HOW LONG WILL YOU KEEP YOUR THOUSANDS OF FIELD WORKERS LOCKED OUT? We have successfully exfiltrated the most sensitive engineering data held by any firm in your sectors We hold the complete Navisworks 3D models, P&amp;ID diagrams, and maintenance logic for your major energy plants. This includes the granular Honeywell DCS controller logic. We know…

Sources

Leak posthttp://fjg4zi4opkxkvdz7mvwp7h6goe4tcby3hhkrz43pht4j3vakhy75znyd.onion/companies/aptim

Source

Indexed 28 days ago

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