Was Optimum First Mortgage hit by ransomware?

Optimum First Mortgage was listed by the blacknevas ransomware operation, 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 blacknevas ransomware group?

blacknevas 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 Optimum First Mortgage breach?

blacknevas published data attributed to Optimum First Mortgage (~1.2 TB), around 145146 files records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Optimum First Mortgage

Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 4 hours ago

1.2 TB

Data size

145146 files records

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 6, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacknevas
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 6, 2026
Data size: 1.2 TB
Records: 145146 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Optimum First Mortgage is a financial services company operating in the mortgage lending sector. Limited public information is available about the company's specific operations, location, or scale.

Industry: Financial Services & Mortgage Lending

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 1.2 TB from a financial services/mortgage company indicates access to regulated financial data and customer PII at significant scale. Mortgage lending involves sensitive personal, financial, and property information subject to regulatory protection.

BlackNevas claims to have exfiltrated 1.2 TB of data from Optimum First Mortgage. The group has published the victim on its leak site and is offering access to stolen data, indicating confirmed data exfiltration.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Mortgage & financial records
Customer personal information
Business documents

What the group claims

Optimum First Mortgage (referenced as Pear's acting group's promotional blog)

The leak post

captured from the group's site

[ Optimum First Mortgage (Pear's acting group's promotional blog) ](http://ctyfftrjgtwdjzlgqh4avbd35sqrs6tde4oyam2ufbjch6oqpqtkdtid.onion/d7ba2a3f-0d92-4bc9-b30d-6f0edbeaf54b)
[ Mefa Group www.mefagroup.com.tr / MEFA Endüstri www.mefaendustri.com / and (Efachem, EcoPolymer, Milkrun Lojistik) https://send.exploit.in/#37608d72633301fc62801dfdf9111dbe!BsYvGiQz6WmjZo1VvPwTi8lU2K7prrPY2q6CdMORZn0List of files. For details and cooperation, write to Telegram https://t.me/BlackNevas or email [email protected] Group is a Turkish industrial group (headquartered in Ankara), founded in 2006. It operates in industrial manufacturing, plastics, rubber, processing, and logistics. The group has over 115,000 m² of production space, over 2,000 employees, and several facilities in Turkey, Romania, and Poland. Its main areas of focus are the automotive industry, white goods, and related industries.MILKRUN — Milkrun Lojistik, the group's logistics division. It provides integrated and smart logistics solutions for group companies and partners (focusing on efficiency, digitalization, and sustainability). It is not the Australian grocery delivery service of a similar name.Efachem, a division specia…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Optimum First Mortgage

Sources

Leak posthttp://ctyfftrjgtwdjzlgqh4avbd35sqrs6tde4oyam2ufbjch6oqpqtkdtid.onion

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 57 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post October 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 6, 2026Optimum First Mortgage listed by blacknevas on the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.2 TB
Records: 145146 files

Other recent disclosures by blacknevas

blacknevas has been linked to 57 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full blacknevas dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,196 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means Optimum First Mortgage 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on blacknevas'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.