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

November 20, 2023Barnett Millworks listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Data size: 350 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Barnett Millworks 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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Barnett Millworks

Claimed by Knight · listed 2 years ago

350 GB

Data size

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 20, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Knight
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Nov 20, 2023
Data size: 350 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Barnett Millworks is a U.S.-based manufacturing company operating in the millwork sector, which typically encompasses the production of wood products such as doors, windows, moldings, and related building materials. No public website content was available to confirm operational scale or headquarters location. The company name suggests a specialized focus within the broader wood and building products manufacturing industry.

Industry: Millwork & Wood Products Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims both encryption of the victim's network and exfiltration of 350 GB of data, representing a dual-impact attack with significant business data at stake. No confirmed regulated/sensitive PII at scale is evidenced, keeping this at high rather than critical.

The Knight ransomware group claims to have encrypted Barnett Millworks' network and exfiltrated approximately 350 GB of data to their servers, inviting the victim to negotiate via a chat room.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Encrypted network data
Exfiltrated corporate data (350 GB)

What the group claims

Your network has been locked by us.350GB of data has been downloaded to our servers.We're waiting for you in the chat room to negotiate.

Sources

Leak posthttp://knight3xppu263m7g4ag3xlit2qxpryjwueobh7vjdc3zrscqlfu3pqd.onion/e7551587-7594-4dfe-b603-f197dd211cc4/

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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