Was Swanson Group hit by ransomware?

Swanson Group was listed by the Royal ransomware operation (United States), 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 Royal ransomware group?

Royal 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 Swanson Group breach?

Royal published data attributed to Swanson Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Swanson Group

Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 17, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Royal
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Apr 17, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Swanson Group is a multigenerational family-owned forest products company founded in 1951 and headquartered in Oregon, USA. The company manufactures and sells a diverse range of wood products including commodity plywood, concrete forming panels, sanded plywood, studs, veneers, siding, and sign-making panels from timber logs. It operates three world-class mill sites in Roseburg, Glendale, and Springfield, Oregon, with its Springfield facility recognized as the most advanced panel manufacturing facility in North America.

Industry: Forest Products & Wood Panel Manufacturing
Address: Mills in Roseburg, Glendale, and Springfield, Oregon, USA
Founded: 1951

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including employee PII and financial records, with data publication imminent; however, no proof files have been published yet and scale of PII is unquantified, placing this at high rather than critical.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated corporate data from Swanson Group, including financial and accounting information, employee personal information, confidential documents, and project details, with publication of the data stated as imminent.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial and accounting records
Employee personal information
Confidential corporate documents
Project details and specifications

What the group claims

Founded in 1951, Swanson Group sells and manufactures wood products and other building products from timber logs, such as plywood panels, concrete forming panels, studs, veneers, residual products, sign making panels, and safety data sheets. At this moment Swanson's corporate data is not in safety anymore and will be soon posted and free to download. You can find there their financial and accounting information, employees personal information and interesting docs, projects detailed info and some confidential data.Upload soon.

Sources

Victim siteswansongroup.biz
Leak posthttp://royal4ezp7xrbakkus3oofjw6gszrohpodmdnfbe5e4w3og5sm7vb3qd.onion/YHWVNP0rQoAOsf9wE7F33uTVkQLBigBA

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 17, 2023Swanson Group listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Royal

Royal has been linked to 211 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Royal dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Swanson Group is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Royal means Swanson Group 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Royal'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.