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Budinger & Associates

Claimed by Securotrop · listed 11 months ago

11m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 6, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Securotrop
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Aug 6, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Budinger & Associates is a geotechnical and environmental engineering consulting firm headquartered in Spokane Valley, Washington, with over 40 years of experience. The company provides services in geotechnical engineering, construction monitoring, environmental consultations, and mining/materials services to clients in infrastructure, construction, mining, and real estate sectors.

Industry
Geotechnical & Environmental Engineering
Address
Spokane Valley, Washington, United States
Employees
41-100

Attack summary

Severity: low — Only listing/announcement without explicit proof files shown, operational impact not stated, and no details on data exfiltration or encryption provided. The post is descriptive but lacks evidence of actual data compromise.

The securotrop group claims to have accessed Budinger & Associates' systems. The leak post does not explicitly detail what data was exfiltrated or whether systems were encrypted; only the announcement of the company as a victim is provided.

low

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client project records
  • Engineering reports
  • Construction monitoring data
  • Environmental consultation files
  • Business records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Budinger & Associates is a consulting engineering company that specializes in geotechnical engineering, construction monitoring, environmental consultations, and mining and materials services. With its headquarters in Spokane Valley, Washington, the firm has over 40 years of experience and serves professionals in industries like infrastructure, construction, mining, and real estate.

Sources

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About securotrop

Securotrop is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2025 and operates with apparent financial motivations, having targeted at least 31 victims across multiple sectors. The group primarily targets English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with their attacks focused heavily on manufacturing companies, business services firms, construction organizations, and telecommunications providers. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity agencies and researchers, specific details about their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, and technical capabilities remain largely undocumented in open-source intelligence reports. The targeting pattern suggests a focus on critical infrastructure and industrial sectors that may be willing to pay ransoms to quickly restore operations, though no major high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the group's recent formation in mid-2025, Securotrop appears to remain active, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further documentation by cybersecurity researchers and law enforcement agencies. The group has been linked to 38 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 22, 2025; most recent post July 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 6, 2025Budinger & Associates listed by securotropon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by securotrop

securotrop has been linked to 38 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Budinger & Associates is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by securotrop means Budinger & Associates 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on securotrop'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.