Was carrellblanton.com hit by ransomware?

carrellblanton.com was listed by the Threeam 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 Threeam ransomware group?

Threeam 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 carrellblanton.com breach?

Threeam published data attributed to carrellblanton.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Carrell Blanton Ferris & Associates

listed as carrellblanton.com · Claimed by Threeam · listed 3 years ago

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 27, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Threeam
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Legal
Listed on leak site: Nov 27, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Carrell Blanton Ferris & Associates is a boutique law firm headquartered in Virginia, operating four offices across Richmond, Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, and Fredericksburg. The firm specializes in estate planning, trust and estate administration, elder law, special needs planning, veteran's pension and Medicaid, and related fiduciary litigation. The firm draws on over 200 years of combined attorney experience serving clients throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Industry: Estate Planning & Elder Law Legal Services
Address: Multiple offices in Richmond, Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, and Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The firm handles highly sensitive legal and financial records for estate planning, elder law, and trust administration clients — constituting regulated PII, financial data, and privileged attorney-client communications at scale. Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), confirming exfiltration of sensitive client data.

The Threeam ransomware group claims to have attacked Carrell Blanton Ferris & Associates and has disclosed the status as data_published, indicating exfiltration and publication of data. The leak post reproduces firm-specific content consistent with access to internal or client-facing materials.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client personal information
Estate planning documents
Trust and estate administration records
Elder law case files
Attorney-client communications
Financial and asset protection records
Guardianship and conservatorship records
Veteran pension and Medicaid records

What the group claims

FOUR LOCATIONS. ONE FIRM. As a boutique law firm, specializing in estate planning, trust and estate administration, and elder law, we are dedicated to serving all our clients with a high level of quality, effort, and creativity. Pulling...

Sources

Victim sitecarrellblanton.com
Leak posthttp://threeamkelxicjsaf2czjyz2lc4q3ngqkxhhlexyfcp2o6raw4rphyad.onion/cl/clicks.php?uri=CB/index.html

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Threeam

Threeam is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating as a relatively new player in the ransomware ecosystem with 64 documented victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Threeam appears to employ common initial access vectors targeting organizations across business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, with the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France, and Brazil representing their primary geographic focus areas. While specific technical details about their encryption methods and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their emergence in late 2023 and victim count suggests they have established operational capabilities within the competitive ransomware landscape. The group's current operational status remains active based on the recency of their emergence, though detailed law enforcement actions or disruption efforts have not been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other major security organizations. The group has been linked to 88 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 14, 2023; most recent post July 18, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 27, 2023carrellblanton.com listed by Threeamon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Threeam

Threeam has been linked to 88 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Legal sector, which has 241 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, carrellblanton.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Threeam means carrellblanton.com 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 Threeam'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.