Disclosure context

About Projectrelic

Projectrelic is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim extortion activities. The group has been documented attacking 46 organizations primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, India, Germany, and France, with a focus on technology, manufacturing, construction, and education sectors, though many victims' sector classifications remain undocumented. Limited public intelligence exists regarding Projectrelic's country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations with other cybercriminal groups, and it remains unclear whether they operate as an independent entity or utilize a ransomware-as-a-service model. Similarly, detailed information about their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or use of double extortion tactics has not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has not been associated with any particularly high-profile attacks or record ransom demands that have garnered significant public attention from security researchers or government agencies. Based on available reporting, Projectrelic appears to maintain some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status are limited due to the relatively sparse public documentation surrounding this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 46 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 11, 2022; most recent post November 9, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 5, 2025ppmrecruit.com listed by Projectrelicon 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.

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PPM Recruitment

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

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 5, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Projectrelic
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 firm established in 1999 that provides permanent, temporary, contract, and freelance staffing services. They operate nationwide with specialist divisions across facilities management, engineering, horticulture, social housing, construction, and senior appointments.

Industry: Recruitment & Staffing Services
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirmed with no operational disruption claimed. Likely exposure of candidate PII (CVs, personal details) and client recruitment records, which is moderately sensitive but not at scale of critical breaches. No proof file count advertised.

Projectrelic claims to have attacked PPM Recruitment and published data. The specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data types are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

medium

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

Victim siteppmrecruit.com

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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