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 35 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 22, 2025; most recent post May 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 6, 2025Budinger & Associates listed by securotropon 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, Budinger & Associates 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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Budinger & Associates

Claimed by securotrop · listed 10 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 6, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: securotrop
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
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

Victim sitewww.budingerinc.com
Leak posthttp://securo45z554mw7rgrt7wcgv5eenj2xmxyrsdj3fcjsvindu63s4bsid.onion/Budinger&Associates/info.txt

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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