Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 87 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 20, 2026Indian Creek Valley Water Authority listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 259 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Indian Creek Valley Water Authority 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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Indian Creek Valley Water Authority

Claimed by pear · listed 12 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: May 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Indian Creek Valley Water Authority is a public-sector water utility serving the Indian Head, Pennsylvania area. They manage potable water distribution, consumer billing, and water quality reporting for their service territory.

Industry: Water Utility
Address: 2019 Indian Head Road, Indian Head, PA 15446

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Public-sector water utility attacked; potential access to customer PII (billing records, addresses, contact info) and operational data. However, no proof files or exfiltration details disclosed in the available post excerpt, and no explicit ransom demand stated.

The pear group claims to have compromised Indian Creek Valley Water Authority. No details on exfiltration or encryption are provided in the truncated leak post.

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What the group claims

Indian Creek Valley Water Authority

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim siteicvwater.org
Leak posthttp://pearsmob5sn44ismokiusuld34pnfwi6ctgin3qbvonpoob4lh3rmtqd.onion/Companies/icvwater

Source

Indexed 12 hours ago

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