Karma is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in October 2021 with primarily financial motivations, having claimed seven documented victims since its first observed activities. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available from major security vendors and law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Due to the limited public documentation available from reputable sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms, specific details regarding Karma's attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported in open-source intelligence. The group has not been associated with any widely publicized high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions that have generated detailed public reporting from authoritative sources. Current intelligence suggests the group remains relatively inactive or operates at a scale that has not attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations, with their operational status and recent activities remaining unclear based on available public documentation. The group has been linked to 7 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021. The operation is currently inactive.
If your organisation is affected
A listing by Karma means Align Technology. Part 2. 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 Karma'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.
