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www.baxterlaboratories.com

Claimed by RansomHub · listed 1 year ago

16m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 17, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Listed on leak site
Mar 17, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Baxter Laboratories is a TGA-licensed contract manufacturer based in Melbourne, Australia, specializing in sun care, skincare, and topical pharmaceutical products. They provide end-to-end services including R&D, regulatory compliance, manufacturing, filling, warehousing, and global distribution for multinational pharmaceutical organizations, pharmacy chains, and private brand owners.

Industry
Contract Manufacturing – Pharmaceuticals, Skincare & Sun Care Products
Address
1019 Mountain Highway, Boronia, Victoria 3155, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration by ransomware group with published disclosure. Healthcare/pharmaceutical manufacturing sector handles sensitive regulatory, customer, and product data. TGA-licensed manufacturer status elevates regulatory exposure.

RansomHub claims to have compromised Baxter Laboratories and published exfiltrated data. The specific data categories and extent of exfiltration are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business records
  • Customer information
  • Manufacturing/operational data
  • Regulatory or compliance documents

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Baxter Laboratories is an Australian contract manufacturing company, specializing in skincare products. They provide services for a range of sectors including beauty, baby care, sun care, and medical products. They handle every process from conception and development, through to manufacturing and packing, ensuring high-quality output. They are renowned for their innovation and adherence to GMP quality standards.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About RansomHub

RansomHub is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in February 2024 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat, compromising over 1,000 victims within its first year of operation. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, though their specific country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain under investigation by security researchers. RansomHub employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victims' systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met, with their attacks primarily targeting organizations in the United States, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and Italy. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors, suggesting they prioritize targets with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase the likelihood of ransom payment. Despite their recent emergence, RansomHub has quickly gained notoriety for their aggressive targeting approach and high victim count, with security agencies including CISA and FBI monitoring their activities as part of ongoing ransomware threat assessments. As of current reporting, RansomHub remains active and continues to recruit affiliates for their RaaS operation while expanding their victim base across multiple industries and geographic regions. The group has been linked to 1,032 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 10, 2024; most recent post March 31, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HUB.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 17, 2025www.baxterlaboratories.com listed by RansomHubon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.baxterlaboratories.com is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by RansomHub means www.baxterlaboratories.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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on RansomHub'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.