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L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

listed as www.l3harris.com · Claimed by Abyss · listed 3 years ago

38m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 15, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Abyss
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Defense & Aerospace
Listed on leak site
May 15, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. is a major U.S. defense contractor and technology company headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, with over $21.9 billion in annual revenue and operations in more than 100 countries. The company provides advanced defense electronics, communications systems, intelligence solutions, and aerospace technologies across three strategic segments for military, government, and commercial customers worldwide. It is a prime contractor for programs including FAA telecommunications modernization, U.S. Air Force command and control networks, and naval undersea systems.

Industry
Defense Electronics & Aerospace Systems
Address
1025 W. NASA Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32919, United States
Employees
47000
Founded
2019

Attack summary

Severity: critical — L3Harris is a major U.S. defense contractor handling classified and sensitive national security programs; the compromised systems relate to Wideband Satellite Communications Operations and Technical Support (WSOTS), a defense/government communications program. Exfiltration of 17 VMs from such an environment almost certainly involves sensitive or regulated defense-related data, potentially including government communications infrastructure details, constituting a critical-severity breach.

The Abyss ransomware group claims to have compromised 17 virtual machines belonging to wsots.net, identified as the Wideband Satellite Communications Operations and Technical Support (WSOTS) program, a defense-related network associated with L3Harris. The disclosure status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of data from these systems.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Virtual machine images (17 VMs)
  • Wideband satellite communications operational data
  • Technical support system data
  • Potential network infrastructure configurations

What the group claims

17 VM from wsots.net (Wideband Satellite Communications Operations and Technical Support)

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 103 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post June 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 15, 2023www.l3harris.com listed by Abysson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Abyss

Abyss has been linked to 103 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 Defense & Aerospace sector, which has 37 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.l3harris.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Abyss means www.l3harris.com 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Abyss'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.