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Keysight

Claimed by Everest · listed 3 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 5, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Everest
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Aug 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Keysight Technologies is an American designer and manufacturer of electronic test and measurement instruments, software, and services. Headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, it serves aerospace, defense, communications, semiconductors, and automotive industries. The company became independent in 2014 after being spun out from Agilent Technologies.

Industry
Electronic Test & Measurement Equipment
Address
Santa Rosa, California, US
Founded
2014

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data exfiltration from a major technology company with defense and aerospace exposure, but no specific data categories, scale, or proof artifacts are described in the available post excerpt.

Everest claims to have exfiltrated data from Keysight. The specific data categories and operational impact are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Keysight Technologies is an American electronic test and measurement company headquartered in Santa Rosa, California. It designs and manufactures instruments, software, and services used to design, emulate, and test electronic equipment. Its solutions support industries including aerospace, defense, communications, semiconductors, and automotive. Formerly part of Agilent Technologies, Keysight became an independent public company in 2014.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Everest

Everest is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with a focus on profit-driven extortion campaigns against organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation exists regarding Everest's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their victim profile indicates they employ standard ransomware tactics targeting a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. Since their emergence, Everest has claimed responsibility for attacks against 339 victims across multiple countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Spain representing their primary geographic targets, though no specific high-profile incidents or major ransoms have been publicly documented by law enforcement or major security firms. As of current reporting, Everest appears to remain an active threat actor, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent and well-documented criminal organizations. The group has been linked to 388 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post August 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 5, 2026Keysight listed by Evereston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Everest

Everest has been linked to 388 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 Technology sector, which has 3,567 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Keysight is reported in United States, a country with 3,159 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Everest means Keysight 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 Everest'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.