Disclosure context

About Hunters International

Hunters International is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on publicly available victim data, Hunters International has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services, technology, and manufacturing sectors, with their attacks primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. With 388 documented victims since their emergence, the group has shown consistent activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reports. As of current reporting, Hunters International appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or operational changes reported by major cybersecurity agencies. The group has been linked to 388 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Hunters.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 26, 2026BreachForums version 5 listed by Hunters Internationalon 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.

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BreachForums version 5

Claimed by Hunters International · listed 2 months ago

55d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 26, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Hunters International
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

BreachForums is a notorious cybercrime and data-leak forum that has operated across multiple iterations and domains following successive law enforcement takedowns. It has historically served as a marketplace for stolen data, credentials, and hacking tools. The forum has no legitimate corporate structure and operates anonymously across various clearnet and dark-web domains.

Industry: Cybercrime Forum / Underground Marketplace

Attack summary

Severity: high — Threatened disclosure includes IP addresses, email addresses, and private messages of forum members at scale — constituting significant PII exfiltration with potential to expose identities of individuals involved in cybercriminal activity; data is claimed to be in hand and release is conditional rather than speculative.

Hunters International claims to have seized control of BreachForums infrastructure following an FBI seizure on 10 October 2025, and threatens to publish full forum backups — including private messages, email addresses, IP addresses, and posts — if copycat forums continue to operate.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Private messages
Email addresses
IP addresses
Forum posts
Full forum database backups
MyBB 1.8 exploit access

What the group claims

BreachForums has been run by many fakes, but by us, following the FBI seizure on 10 Oct 2025. Maintaining such an ecosystem is a waste of our time. There was an unauthorised leak on 9 Jan 2026. Ever since then, false personas going by “N/A“ and “Indra“ were successfully able to restore a similar-looking “legitimate“ forum. All the current forums are fake [ .sb, .ac, .fi, .bf, .us, ect.]. If they continue to exist, we'll leak all the BF backups, including every private message, emails, IP addresses, posts, ect. We have exploits for all 1.8 versions of MyBB.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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