Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 75 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 2, 2026project1631.com listed by beaston 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. Geographically, project1631.com 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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project1631.com

Claimed by beast · listed 2 months ago

48d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 2, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: beast
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Project 1631 operates under the domain project1631.com and is based in the United States. No public site content was available to determine the nature of the business, its scale, or its area of operations. The company's industry and activities remain unverifiable from available evidence.

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been marked as published (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration occurred and material has been released; however, no details about data type, sensitivity, or scale are available to elevate this to high or critical.

The Beast ransomware group has listed project1631.com as a victim with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating data has been released. No further details about the method of attack, volume of exfiltrated data, or specific data categories were provided in the leak post.

medium

What the group claims

project1631.com

The leak post

captured from the group's site

AJU Pharm Co., Ltd. is a prominent South Korean total healthcare company founded in 1953. For over 70 years, it has evolved from a manufacturer of raw materials into a global pharmaceutical group specializing in prescription drugs, medical devices, and health supplements
P U B L I S H E D

Sources

Victim sitewww.project1631.com
Leak posthttp://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/project1631_com

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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