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

April 13, 2026Tax Prep and More listed by securotropon 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, Tax Prep and More is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Tax Prep and More

Claimed by securotrop · listed 1 month ago

37d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 13, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: securotrop
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Tax Prep and More is a US-based tax preparation and financial services firm operating under the domain taxprepandmore.com. Based on the business name, the company likely provides individual and/or small business tax preparation, filing assistance, and related financial services. No further operational details are publicly available from the site.

Industry: Tax Preparation & Financial Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A tax preparation firm almost certainly holds large volumes of regulated PII and sensitive financial data (SSNs, income records, bank details, tax filings) for numerous clients. 146 GB of exfiltrated data from such an entity represents a high-scale regulated data breach warranting a critical severity classification.

The group 'securotrop' claims to have exfiltrated approximately 146 GB of data from Tax Prep and More, with the disclosure status listed as data_published and the post status marked as AWAITING, suggesting data may be staged for release.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Tax preparation records
Client financial data
Personally identifiable information (PII)
Business financial documents

What the group claims

Status: AWAITING Size: 146 GB

Sources

Victim sitewww.taxprepandmore.com
Leak posthttp://securo45z554mw7rgrt7wcgv5eenj2xmxyrsdj3fcjsvindu63s4bsid.onion

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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