Disclosure context

About ALP-001

ALP-001 is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with limited documented activity, having targeted only five known victims to date with a focus on financially motivated cybercrime. Due to the group's recent emergence and low victim count, their country of origin, operational structure, and potential affiliations remain unknown with no public documentation from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their organizational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors have not been publicly analyzed or reported by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests a preference for technology and manufacturing sectors across developed nations including the United States, Japan, China, France, and Italy. No notable campaigns, high-profile incidents, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented for this group, and no law enforcement actions have been reported against ALP-001. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to limited public intelligence and their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2026; most recent post April 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 29, 2026kob.com listed by ALP-001on the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.127 TB
Ransom demanded: $22M

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, kob.com 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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KOB 4 Eyewitness News

listed as kob.com · Claimed by ALP-001 · listed 2 months ago

1.127 TB

Data size

$22M

Ransom

demanded

53d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 29, 2026
Ransom deadline
Apr 2, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ALP-001
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 29, 2026
Ransom deadline: Apr 2, 2026
Data size: 1.127 TB
Ransom demanded: $22M
Estimated revenue: $22M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

KOB 4 Eyewitness News (KOB.com) is a television news station serving Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and the broader New Mexico region. It provides local news, weather, sports, and investigative journalism under the 'Eyewitness News 4' brand. The station is one of the primary broadcast news outlets in New Mexico.

Industry: Broadcast Television News
Address: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — 1.127 TB of data has been claimed as exfiltrated and the status is data_published, indicating significant business data exposure from a regional media organization. While not a healthcare or government target, the scale of exfiltration and publication of data warrants a high severity rating.

The ALP-001 ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 1.127 TB of data from KOB 4 Eyewitness News, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, suggesting the stolen data has been or is being released. The group has set a deadline of April 2, 2026, and references $22M, likely the stated ransom demand.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal broadcast/newsroom files
Business and operational data
Employee records
Potentially sensitive investigative journalism materials

What the group claims

Country: USA Revenue: $22 Million Storage: 1.127TB Description: KON (KOB 4, Eyewitness News 4 is your best source for Albuquerque news, Santa Fe news and New Mexico news, weather and sports. Deadline: 2026-04-02 23:23:40

Sources

Victim sitekob.com
Leak posthttp://b4riuxx7ypobdptctf6lyfcvgi6vn74iurzdh4kn2agbk7472dvywgyd.onion#kob.com

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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