Disclosure context

About obscura

Obscura is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has compromised at least 33 known victims since their emergence, demonstrating rapid operational capabilities despite their recent entry into the ransomware landscape. Limited public documentation exists regarding their country of origin, operational structure, or affiliations with established ransomware families, though their targeting pattern suggests either opportunistic attacks or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. Their victim profile spans multiple sectors including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and construction, with geographic focus on the United States, Malaysia, Portugal, Egypt, and Denmark, indicating either broad targeting criteria or access to varied attack infrastructure across different regions. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from major security vendors and law enforcement agencies, specific details regarding their technical capabilities, encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or ransom demands remain undocumented in open-source intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of late 2025, though insufficient time has elapsed to determine their long-term operational sustainability or potential law enforcement attention. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 5, 2025; most recent post January 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 12, 2025New Obscura 2.0! listed by obscuraon 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, New Obscura 2.0! is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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New Obscura 2.0!

Claimed by obscura · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 12, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: obscura
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Dec 12, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States federal government, headquartered at 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. It operates under the U.S. Department of Justice and is responsible for investigating federal crimes, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cybercrime across the United States. The FBI maintains field offices domestically and legal attaché offices overseas.

Industry: Federal Law Enforcement & Intelligence
Address: 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535
Founded: 1908

Attack summary

Severity: low — The post is a ransomware platform advertisement/announcement with no credible claim of a successful attack on the FBI, no proof files, no exfiltrated data, and no stated operational impact. The FBI domain appears to be a placeholder or deliberate misdirection.

The post does not describe an attack on the FBI; rather, it is a ransomware-as-a-service advertisement by the 'Obscura' group announcing version 2.0 of their ransomware platform, touting faster encryption, bug fixes, and covert operation. No specific exfiltration or encryption of FBI systems is claimed.

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What the group claims

We present the new version of Obscura 2.0. Faster encryption mechanisms, bugs fixed in the first version, more covert operation, and more upset companies. Now you can rent our software. You can write to us on Tox, where we will tell you about the terms and conditions.

Sources

Victim sitefbi.gov

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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