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Karolinska Institutet

listed as ki.se · Claimed by Trisec_Cyberoutlaw · listed 2 years ago

29m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Sweden
Listed on leak site
Feb 19, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Karolinska Institutet is Sweden's leading medical university, offering the largest range of medical education programmes and conducting the largest share of academic medical research in Sweden. Based in Stockholm, it is a major research and educational institution.

Industry
Medical Research & Higher Education
Address
171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Founded
1810

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Attack claimed by ransomware group with data published status, but no leak post captured and no specific data inventory or proof files documented. Requires verification.

The Trisec_Cyberoutlaw group claims to have attacked Karolinska Institutet. No leak post was captured detailing the specific nature of the attack, data exfiltrated, or encryption claims.

medium

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Trisec_Cyberoutlaw

Trisec_Cyberoutlaw is an emerging ransomware group first observed in February 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their relatively small victim count of three organizations suggests they are either a nascent operation or a smaller-scale independent group rather than a well-established ransomware-as-a-service operation. Their attack methodology details are not well-documented in public threat intelligence reports, though their targeting spans diverse sectors including business services, healthcare, and technology across Italy, Sweden, and Ireland, indicating they may employ opportunistic rather than highly specialized attack vectors. Notable campaigns and specific high-profile victims have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's recent emergence and limited operational scope. The group's current operational status remains unclear given the lack of comprehensive public reporting on their activities beyond basic victim statistics and geographic targeting patterns. The group has been linked to 3 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 16, 2024; most recent post February 19, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 19, 2024ki.se listed by Trisec_Cyberoutlawon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Trisec_Cyberoutlaw

Trisec_Cyberoutlaw has been linked to 3 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ki.se is reported in Sweden, a country with 111 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Trisec_Cyberoutlaw means ki.se 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, CERT-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Trisec_Cyberoutlaw'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.