Disclosure context

About SilentRansomGroup

Based on the limited available information, SilentRansomGroup is a relatively new ransomware operation that first emerged in May 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their diverse geographic targeting including the United States, Germany, Canada, and Russia suggests either a sophisticated operation or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security researchers, though their targeting of business services, financial services, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors indicates they likely focus on organizations with both valuable data and ability to pay significant ransoms. With 93 known victims across multiple countries and sectors in a relatively short timeframe since May 2025, SilentRansomGroup has demonstrated notable activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom amounts have not been publicly disclosed by CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence firms. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though comprehensive technical analysis and attribution efforts by established security researchers are still developing given their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 117 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2025; most recent post May 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 17, 2026Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP listed by SilentRansomGroupon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP 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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Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP

Claimed by SilentRansomGroup · listed 1 month ago

33d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 17, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: SilentRansomGroup
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP is a California-based law firm that provides legal services exclusively to public educational agencies, including K-12 school districts, community colleges, and county offices of education throughout California. The firm's practice areas include labor and employment, special education, student matters, governance, and litigation. It operates entirely within the United States.

Industry: Education Law & Legal Services
Address: Los Angeles, California, United States
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The firm exclusively represents public educational agencies and likely holds regulated sensitive data including student records (potentially subject to FERPA), special education files (potentially subject to IDEA and HIPAA-adjacent protections), and PII for minors and staff across numerous California school districts. Data_published status confirms exfiltration of this regulated, sensitive legal and educational data at scale.

SilentRansomGroup claims to have attacked Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP and has published data, suggesting exfiltration of firm and client records. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Student records
Special education case files
Labor and employment documents
School district governance records
Litigation materials
Personnel/HR data
Internal firm communications

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP is a California-based law firm specializing in education law. The firm provides legal services exclusively to public educational agencies, including K-12 school districts, community colleges, and county offices of education throughout California. Its practice areas include labor and employment, special education, student matters, governance, and litigation. The firm operates entirely within the United States.

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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