Disclosure context

About genesis

Genesis is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in October 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated a relatively aggressive operational tempo since emergence, accumulating 54 documented victims within a short timeframe. Given the limited public documentation available from established threat intelligence sources regarding this newly identified group, specific details about their country of origin, organizational structure, and precise attack methodologies remain under investigation by security researchers. The group's targeting patterns indicate a preference for victims in the United States and United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Malaysia and Spain, suggesting either a broad operational scope or the use of automated targeting tools that do not discriminate by geography. Their sector targeting reveals a focus on healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial services organizations, indicating they may prioritize entities with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited reporting from major threat intelligence organizations such as Mandiant, CISA, or FBI, comprehensive details regarding their specific encryption methods, initial access vectors, data exfiltration practices, or notable high-profile campaigns have not yet been publicly documented. Genesis remains an active threat as of current reporting, though their operational longevity and potential connections to established ransomware ecosystems continue to be assessed by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 82 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2025; most recent post May 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 9, 2026Prescott & Holden listed by genesison the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Prescott & Holden 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

Prescott & Holden

Claimed by genesis · listed 12 days ago

11d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: genesis
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: May 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Prescott Holden Family Law is a family law firm based in Tustin, California (Orange County), serving the Southern California community for nearly three decades. The firm specializes in family law matters including divorce and custody cases, offering individualized representation with a small team of attorneys led by Valerie Prescott Holden. The practice emphasizes discretion, integrity, and client communication.

Industry: Family Law Legal Services
Address: 400 West First Street, Tustin, CA

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of 400 GB of data from a law firm handling sensitive family law matters, including client PII, financial records, and email archives — constituting regulated and highly sensitive personal data (divorce, custody, financial disclosures) at meaningful scale, with a published file list confirming data publication.

The Genesis ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 400 GB of data from Prescott Holden Family Law, including client PII, operational data, financial data, email archives, network user folders, and legal/legislative data, with a file list published on their onion site.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client PII
Operational data
Legal/legislative data
Financial data
Company fileserver data
Email archives
Network user folders

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

A legal firm dedicated to safeguard the rights of its clients

The leak post

captured from the group's site

A legal firm dedicated to safeguard the rights of its clients.

```
- 400 Gb of accessible data.
- PII and data of clients.
- Operational Data.
- Ligislatition data.
- Financial Data.
- Data from company fileserver. 
- Email archives.
- Folders of network users. 

```

[Download The List of Company Files](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/download/57e0056d90ab194a77e7.txt)

Sources

Victim sitefamilylaw.com
Leak posthttp://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/57e0056d90ab194a77e7/

Source

Indexed 12 days 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.