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Suárez & Compañía

listed as suandco.com · Claimed by Madliberator · listed 2 years ago

23m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 7, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Madliberator
Status
Data leaked
Country
South Korea
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 7, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A Madrid-based law and economics firm specializing in tax law, labor law, corporate law, and family office advisory. Founded in 1951 by Don Francisco Suárez Sotillo, the firm advises families and businesses across three generations on fiscal, legal, and business matters.

Industry
Legal & Tax Advisory Services
Address
Madrid, Spain
Founded
1951

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by group with no operational impact stated; however, a law firm handling sensitive client tax, legal, and financial information represents moderate sensitivity. No specific proof files or data samples are advertised in the post.

Madliberator claims to have compromised Suárez & Compañía and published data. The group has disclosed the attack but provided no specific details about the scope or nature of exfiltrated information.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client confidential records
  • Tax and financial advisory files
  • Legal case documentation
  • Family office client information

What the group claims

Suandco tiene su origen en el despacho fundado en 1951 por Don Francisco Suarez Sotillo, abogado e Inspector de Hacienda. Uno de los primeros despachos de Madrid especializados en Derecho Tributario. Llevamos tres generaciones asesorando familias y empresas que han depositado su confianza en nosotros. Por que? Porque aquilas personas nos importan y son el centro de nuestra profesion.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Madliberator

Madliberator is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across multiple continents. Based on their targeting pattern spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and South Africa, the group appears to operate internationally with no clear geographic origin established by security researchers, and their operational model as either independent operators or ransomware-as-a-service remains undetermined due to limited public documentation. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. The group has primarily targeted business services, manufacturing, financial services, and government sectors, though no specific high-profile incidents or record ransom demands have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence providers. As of current reporting, Madliberator appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing targeting activities, though comprehensive analysis remains limited due to the group's relatively small victim count and recent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 17, 2024; most recent post October 1, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: mad liberator.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 7, 2024suandco.com listed by Madliberatoron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Madliberator

Madliberator has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Madliberator dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, suandco.com is reported in South Korea, a country with 48 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Madliberator means suandco.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, KrCERT/CC (South Korea), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Madliberator'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.