Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 31, 2023Intellipop Fiber Internet listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunications sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Intellipop Fiber Internet 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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Intellipop Fiber Internet

Claimed by Knight · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 31, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Knight
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Telecommunications
Listed on leak site: Oct 31, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Intellipop Fiber Internet is a locally owned Internet Service Provider based in Payson, Utah, founded in 2014. The company offers high-speed fiber internet services to residential customers in Payson, Santaquin, and Utopia Fiber cities, with no contracts, hidden fees, or data caps. It has over 1,300 Google reviews with a 4.9-star rating, indicating a substantial local customer base.

Industry: Internet Service Provider (Fiber Broadband)
Address: Payson, UT, United States
Founded: 2014

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published (data_published status) by the ransomware group. As an ISP, Intellipop likely holds customer PII including names, addresses, contact details, and billing information for its residential subscriber base, representing significant exposure of sensitive customer data even without explicit inventory details in the post.

The Knight ransomware group claims an attack on Intellipop Fiber Internet with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

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What the group claims

Intellipop is a locally owned Internet Service Provider located in Payson, UT. We have been in service since 2014 and provide local residents a better, local alternative to internet service without the hidden fees, contracts and data limits you might find with other providers.We offer lightning fast services specializing in high speed internet in Payson and Santaquin and in all Utopia Fiber cities.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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