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New Obscura 2.0!

Claimed by Obscura · listed 7 months ago

7m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 12, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Obscura
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
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.

low

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

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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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

Other recent disclosures by obscura

obscura has been linked to 33 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full obscura dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, New Obscura 2.0! is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by obscura means New Obscura 2.0! 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 obscura'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.