Disclosure context

About J

The J ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in May 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple countries and sectors. With limited public documentation available from established security research organizations, the group has demonstrated rapid operational capability by compromising 41 known victims within their initial months of activity. Their targeting strategy appears opportunistic, focusing primarily on organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Argentina, and Germany, with a particular emphasis on technology companies, manufacturing firms, construction businesses, and business services providers. The diversity of their geographic and sectoral targeting suggests either a broad-spectrum approach to victim selection or potential use of automated tools for initial compromise identification. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited reporting from major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies, specific details regarding their technical methodologies, ransom demands, data exfiltration practices, or organizational structure remain undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence. The group remains active as of current reporting periods, though their relative obscurity in established threat intelligence databases suggests they may be operating at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware-as-a-service operations. The group has been linked to 41 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 2, 2025; most recent post November 9, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 5, 2025ppmrecruit.com listed by Jon 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, ppmrecruit.com is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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PPM Recruitment

listed as ppmrecruit.com · Claimed by J · listed 10 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 5, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: J
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Aug 5, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PPM Recruitment is a UK-based recruitment agency established in 1999 that provides permanent, temporary, contract, and freelance staffing solutions. They specialize in multiple sectors including facilities management, M&E engineering, horticulture, social housing, construction, and senior appointments, operating on a nationwide basis with local sector expertise.

Industry: Recruitment & Staffing Services
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: low — No leak post content available to verify claims; no proof files, screenshots, or data samples provided; no operational impact confirmed. Classification defaults to low pending actual evidence of exfiltration or encryption.

The ransomware group has claimed an attack on PPM Recruitment; however, the leak post content is not provided (marked '[AI generated] N/A'), preventing confirmation of specific attack details or data exfiltration claims.

low

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

candidate CVs and personal information
employment records
client business data
compliance documentation

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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