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

April 27, 2023La Red Health Center listed by Karakurton the group's public leak site

Data size: 79 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, La Red Health Center 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.

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La Red Health Center

Claimed by Karakurt · listed 3 years ago

79 GB

Data size

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Karakurt
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2023
Data size: 79 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

La Red Health Center is an integrated community health center operating multiple locations in Delaware (Georgetown, Seaford, and Milford), providing medical, mental health, and dental care to underserved populations. It operates as a Federally Qualified Health Center receiving HHS funding with Federal Public Health Service deemed status. Services include pediatric care, women's health, behavioral health, substance use recovery, and a discount pharmacy program.

Industry: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) / Community Health
Address: 21444 Carmean Way, Georgetown, DE 19947

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 79 GB of data from a healthcare provider, explicitly including medical records with diagnoses (HIPAA-protected PHI) and PII for employees and students at scale, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Karakurt claims to have exfiltrated 79 GB of data from La Red Health Center, including financial documents, medical records with diagnoses, and personal information of employees and students. The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the stolen data has been released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial documents
Medical records with diagnoses
Employee personal information
Student personal information

What the group claims

La Red Health Center provides an outreach programs help reach undeserved populations and enhance access to quality health care. We have 79GB from them: lots of financial documents, medical records with diagnosis, their employee and students personal information.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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