Disclosure context

About ALP-001

ALP-001 is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with limited documented activity, having targeted only five known victims to date with a focus on financially motivated cybercrime. Due to the group's recent emergence and low victim count, their country of origin, operational structure, and potential affiliations remain unknown with no public documentation from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their organizational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors have not been publicly analyzed or reported by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests a preference for technology and manufacturing sectors across developed nations including the United States, Japan, China, France, and Italy. No notable campaigns, high-profile incidents, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented for this group, and no law enforcement actions have been reported against ALP-001. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to limited public intelligence and their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2026; most recent post April 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 8, 2026nepgroup.com listed by ALP-001on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nepgroup.com is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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NEP Group

listed as nepgroup.com · Claimed by ALP-001 · listed 1 month ago

42d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 8, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ALP-001
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NEP Group is a global media services company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 1984. The company provides outside broadcast, studio production, audio, lighting, host broadcast support, connectivity, and media management services, operating 200+ mobile units and 83 studios and control rooms across the US, Europe, and Australia. NEP serves live events, sports, and entertainment productions worldwide, reporting approximately $2.1 billion in annual revenue.

Industry: Media Production & Broadcast Services
Address: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Founded: 1984

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published/exfiltrated (10 GB samples released publicly) from a large $2.1B revenue media services company; while specific regulated data categories (PII, financial records, medical) are not enumerated, the scale of the company and 70 GB total claimed exfiltration from a critical media infrastructure provider warrants a high severity rating.

The ALP-001 ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from NEP Group, publishing 10 GB of sample files as proof with a deadline of April 18, 2026, indicating a total alleged data haul with samples available for download on their leak page. No ransom amount was stated and no encryption claim was explicitly made.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Exfiltrated corporate data (10 GB sample published)
Internal business files

What the group claims

Country: USA Revenue: $2.1 Billion Storage: 70GB Description: NEP Group, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers outside broadcast, studio production, audio and lighting, host broadcast support, and media management services ** WE UPLOADED 10GB As Samples ** ** You Can Download Samples From Leak Page ** Deadline: 2026-04-18 17:22:11

Sources

Victim sitenepgroup.com
Leak posthttp://b4riuxx7ypobdptctf6lyfcvgi6vn74iurzdh4kn2agbk7472dvywgyd.onion#nepgroup.com

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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