Disclosure context

About killsec

killsec is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests opportunistic rather than geopolitically motivated operations. With 276 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, killsec appears to focus heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors, indicating either specific tooling designed for these environments or opportunistic targeting of organizations with valuable data and high pressure to restore operations quickly. Given the group's recent emergence and the lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity firms like Mandiant or law enforcement advisories from CISA or FBI, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented in authoritative sources. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence profile suggests they may be either a smaller operation or one that has not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations despite their substantial victim count. The group has been linked to 279 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post May 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 9, 2026mrs holdings listed by killsecon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, mrs holdings is reported in NG, a country with 3 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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mrs holdings

Claimed by killsec · listed 12 days ago

11d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: killsec
Status: Data leaked
Country: NG
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MRS Holdings Company Limited is a pan-African conglomerate founded in 1995 and headquartered in Apapa-Lagos, Nigeria, diversified across oil products and services including logistics, retail, aviation fuel, supply & trading, and construction. The company operates more than 900 retail outlets across Africa, a fleet of over 5,000 trucks, and multiple storage terminals across West and Central Africa. It is active in Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, and Côte d'Ivoire through its subsidiaries.

Industry: Downstream Oil & Gas / Petroleum Products Distribution
Address: 2 Tin Can Island Port Rd, Apapa-Lagos, Nigeria
Founded: 1995

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (data_published status), indicating confirmed exfiltration rather than a mere listing; however, no specific sensitive data categories, volume, or proof files are described in the post, preventing a higher severity classification.

KillSec claims to have compromised MRS Holdings and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post itself is minimal with no ransom stated and a disclosure count of 0/1, indicating at least partial data release. No specific data categories or volume are described in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Undisclosed company data

What the group claims

Price ??? Disclosures 0/1

Sources

Victim sitemrsholdings.com

Source

Indexed 12 days ago

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