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JOT

Claimed by Fulcrumsec · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 1, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Fulcrumsec
Status
Data leaked
Country
Japan
Listed on leak site
May 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

JOT (jotnw.or.jp) appears to be a Japanese non-profit or social welfare organization based in Japan, inferred from the '.or.jp' domain suffix which is reserved for non-profit organizations in Japan. No further verifiable details about its operations or scale are available from the provided sources.

Industry
Non-Profit / Social Welfare Organization

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no details on the type, volume, or sensitivity of the data are available; a non-profit context may involve personal or beneficiary data warranting at least medium severity.

The group 'fulcrumsec' claims to have attacked JOT and has published data ('data_published' status), though the specific nature of the exfiltration or encryption is not detailed in the truncated leak post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site
FulcrumSec Browse victim listings from our recent concept campaigns: Index of /Shame Coming Soon: The Hardcoded Horror Show SLOPOCALYPSE NOW [email protected] Session: 05dc2052b7a29d8661f30cbf0ae4f2093e8c85324a16867df5dd5c24f0364d8b27 Tox: 969F8BE40B09537CD2A5038B9DA4BADE71C5F35DD666CC0D7632A6812D7AF72626D422D22540

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About fulcrumsec

FulcrumSec is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple countries and high-value sectors. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation, the group's specific country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting of victims across the United States, India, Netherlands, Colombia, and Japan suggests either a geographically distributed operation or deliberate international scope rather than nation-state backing. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology companies, business services firms, and healthcare organizations, with 21 documented victims indicating a selective approach focused on sectors likely to yield significant ransom payments due to operational dependencies and sensitive data holdings. Their attack methodology details remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms, though their sector targeting suggests sophisticated initial access capabilities given the typically robust security postures of technology and healthcare organizations. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against FulcrumSec have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or leading cybersecurity researchers as of available intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though the limited public intelligence on their operations suggests they may be maintaining a relatively low profile compared to more established ransomware enterprises. The group has been linked to 25 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 1, 2026; most recent post June 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 1, 2026JOT listed by fulcrumsecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by fulcrumsec

fulcrumsec has been linked to 25 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full fulcrumsec dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, JOT is reported in Japan, a country with 88 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by fulcrumsec means JOT 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, JPCERT/CC (Japan), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on fulcrumsec'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.