Disclosure context

About Termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 43 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post May 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 25, 2026The Siskiyou Telephone listed by Termiteon the group's public leak site

Data size: 1000 MB
Records: 000 files

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Siskiyou Telephone is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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The Siskiyou Telephone

Claimed by Termite · listed 3 months ago

1000 MB

Data size

000 files records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 25, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Termite
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Telecommunication
Listed on leak site: Feb 25, 2026
Data size: 1000 MB
Records: 000 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Siskiyou Telephone is a rural independent incumbent local exchange carrier that has served Western Siskiyou County, California since 1896. The company provides residential and business customers with high-speed internet (up to 1000 Mbps via fiber), telephone services, and long-distance calling, including expansion into the Yreka, Montague, and Grenada areas. It is also a partner in the California Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative, supporting 163 miles of new fiber infrastructure.

Industry: Rural Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) / Broadband & Telephone Services
Address: Western Siskiyou County, California, United States
Founded: 1896

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor. As a rural telecom and ILEC, the company likely holds customer PII (billing records, account details, call records) and potentially sensitive infrastructure data; exfiltration and publication of 1 GB from a regulated telecommunications provider constitutes significant business and potentially regulated data exposure.

The Termite ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 1,000 MB of data from Siskiyou Telephone, with the disclosure status marked as data_published, indicating the stolen data has been released or made available on their leak site.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated company data (~1,000 MB)
Proof screenshots (4 photos advertised)

The group's post references roughly 4 proof files.

What the group claims

Siskiyou Telephone is a rural independent service provider serving Western Siskiyou County, California, since 1896. The company offers high-speed internet packages with speeds up to 1000 Mbps and telephone services, catering to both residential and business clients.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for The Siskiyou Telephone

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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