Was Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt hit by ransomware?

Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt was listed by the hunters ransomware operation (India), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the hunters ransomware group?

hunters is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt breach?

hunters published data attributed to Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt Ltd

listed as Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt · Claimed by Hunters · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 2, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Aug 2, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Khandelwal Laboratories is a privately owned Indian pharmaceutical company founded in 1945 with headquarters in Mumbai. It specializes in research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of patented pharmaceutical formulations, NDDS (novel drug delivery systems), and niche APIs, with particular strength in oncology, antibiotics, and pain management. The company supplies over 250,000 doctors and 100,000 pharmacies across India and maintains 222+ patents.

Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & APIs
Address: Mumbai, India (headquarters); factories in Thane, Dadra, and Rudrapur
Employees: 1000+
Founded: 1945

Attack summary

Severity: high — Healthcare sector with confirmed dual-vector attack (encryption + exfiltration). Pharmaceutical company with 1000+ employees, proprietary formulations, 222+ patents, and sensitive manufacturing IP represents significant business and potentially patient safety impact. Data exfiltration of pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing data poses competitive and regulatory risk.

The hunters group claims to have both encrypted Khandelwal Laboratories' systems and exfiltrated data from the company. The specific nature and scope of exfiltrated data is not detailed in the available post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Pharmaceutical formulations & R&D data
API specifications
Patent documentation
Manufacturing processes & quality data
Customer & distribution records
Business operations data

What the group claims

Country : India - Exfiltraded data : yes - Encrypted data : yes

Sources

Victim sitekhandelwallab.com
Leak posthttps://hunters55rdxciehoqzwv7vgyv6nt37tbwax2reroyzxhou7my5ejyid.onion/companies/3751761380

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About hunters

Hunters International is a ransomware group first observed in October 2023 that operates with primary financial motivations, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 307 known victims across a broad range of sectors and geographies. The group is believed to have acquired the source code and infrastructure of the defunct Hive ransomware operation following Hive's disruption by law enforcement in January 2023, though Hunters International has publicly disputed characterizations that it is a direct Hive rebrand, asserting instead that it independently purchased the codebase; the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, recruiting affiliates to conduct intrusions on its behalf. Hunters International employs double extortion tactics, exfiltrating victim data prior to encryption and threatening public release on a dedicated leak site to increase pressure on victims to pay; initial access vectors observed across reported incidents include phishing, exploitation of publicly exposed remote services, and credential abuse, with the group deploying its Rust-based encryptor derived from Hive's codebase. The group has demonstrated a notably indiscriminate targeting pattern, with victims concentrated in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Germany spanning Business Services, Manufacturing, Technology, Healthcare, and Energy sectors, reflecting a financially opportunistic rather than strategically selective approach; no single landmark ransom payment or named high-profile campaign has been singularly attributed to the group in major public reporting as of available documentation. As of the most recent publicly available threat intelligence reporting, Hunters International remains an active and operational ransomware threat with a growing victim count and no confirmed law enforcement disruption or rebranding. The group has been linked to 307 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post May 27, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Hunters International.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 2, 2024Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt listed by hunterson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by hunters

hunters has been linked to 307 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,603 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt is reported in India, a country with 242 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by hunters means Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on hunters's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.