Was LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS hit by ransomware?

LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS was listed by the Karakurt ransomware operation (Canada), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Karakurt ransomware group?

Karakurt is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS breach?

Karakurt published data attributed to LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS (~87 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Le Groupe Bau-Val inc.

listed as LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS · Claimed by Karakurt · listed 4 years ago

87 GB

Data size

43m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 20, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Karakurt
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Dec 20, 2022
Data size: 87 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Le Groupe Bau-Val inc. is a Canadian enterprise headquartered on the South Shore of Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1954. The group encompasses multiple divisions operating across civil engineering project management, aggregate transformation, concrete and building material manufacturing, conventional and low-energy plant mix production, transportation, and drilling & blasting. It positions itself as a leader across these interconnected construction and infrastructure sectors.

Industry: Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
Address: South Shore of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Founded: 1954

Attack summary

Severity: high — 87 GB of confirmed exfiltrated and published corporate data from a multi-division construction and civil engineering group represents significant business data exposure at scale, meeting the threshold for high severity.

Karakurt claims to have exfiltrated 87 GB of corporate data from Le Groupe Bau-Val inc. and has published the data; no encryption claim is made, consistent with Karakurt's typical exfiltration-only methodology.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate data (87 GB)

What the group claims

BauVal was founded in 1954 on the South Shore of Montreal and was first specialized in civil engineering and road systems. Now called Le Groupe Bau-Val inc. and encompassing all affiliated divisions and companies, the enterprise is truly setting itself as the leader in a plethora of sectors, such as managing civil engineering projects and complex structures, transforming aggregates, manufacturing concrete, building material and conventional and low-energy plant mix, as well as transportation and drilling & blasting. In this release we will show you 87 GB of their corporate data.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Karakurt

Karakurt is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating primarily as a data extortion threat actor with financial motivations rather than traditional file encryption. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major cybersecurity agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent entity rather than a confirmed ransomware-as-a-service operation. Karakurt employs data theft and extortion tactics, focusing on exfiltrating sensitive information from victim networks before demanding payment under threat of public disclosure, representing a pure extortion model that bypasses traditional encryption-based ransomware approaches. The group has targeted 74 known victims across multiple sectors, with particular focus on healthcare, education, manufacturing, energy, and professional services organizations, primarily affecting entities in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, and India. Based on available reporting from established cybersecurity agencies and researchers, Karakurt appears to remain active as of recent assessments, though comprehensive intelligence on their specific attack vectors, tools, and major campaigns remains limited in publicly documented sources from CISA, FBI, and major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 74 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 11, 2022; most recent post September 22, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 20, 2022LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS listed by Karakurton the group's public leak site

Data size: 87 GB

Other recent disclosures by Karakurt

Karakurt has been linked to 74 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, LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Karakurt means LIBERTY PULTRUSIONS 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Karakurt'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.