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apexfootwearltd.com

Claimed by Funksec · listed 2 years ago

18m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 30, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Funksec
Status
Data leaked
Country
Bangladesh
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Dec 30, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Apex Footwear Limited is a Bangladesh-based footwear manufacturer and exporter established in 1990. The company specializes in premium leather and athletic footwear for both domestic and international markets, serving North America, Latin America, the European Union, and Japan. It is positioned as one of Bangladesh's leading footwear exporters with a focus on quality, innovation, and sustainability.

Industry
Footwear Manufacturing & Export
Founded
1990

Attack summary

Severity: low — The group's leak post is generic and AI-generated, containing no concrete proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory. No attack methodology is disclosed, and no operational impact is claimed. The disclosure appears to be a listing/announcement only.

Funksec claims to have conducted an attack on Apex Footwear Ltd. The leak post contains no specific details about the attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or the nature of data allegedly compromised.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Apex Footwear Ltd. is a leading footwear manufacturer specializing in a wide range of shoes, including casual, athletic, and formal styles. Known for its commitment to quality and innovation, the company caters to diverse customer needs and emphasizes sustainable practices. Apex Footwear combines traditional craftsmanship with modern design to deliver durable and stylish products to both domestic and international markets.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About funksec

Funksec is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in December 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim acquisition approach. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model based on available intelligence. With 172 documented victims across multiple countries, Funksec has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, primarily focusing on the United States, India, Brazil, Spain, and Israel, with particular emphasis on technology companies, government entities, educational institutions, and business services organizations. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence firms, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests an established operational capability. Given the group's recent discovery in December 2024, there have been no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have drawn significant public attention from law enforcement or cybersecurity organizations. Funksec remains active as of early 2025, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 172 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 4, 2024; most recent post March 18, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 30, 2024apexfootwearltd.com listed by funksecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by funksec

funksec has been linked to 172 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, apexfootwearltd.com is reported in Bangladesh, a country with 4 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by funksec means apexfootwearltd.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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on funksec'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.