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Karolinska Institutet

listed as ki.se · Claimed by Trisec · listed 2 years ago

29m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Trisec
Status
Data leaked
Country
Sweden
Listed on leak site
Feb 19, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Karolinska Institutet is Sweden's premier medical university, offering the country's largest portfolio of medical education programs and conducting the largest share of Swedish academic medical research. Based in Stockholm, it is a leading institution in medical training and biomedical research.

Industry
Medical Education & Research
Address
171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status with a major medical research institution, but without captured leak post details, proof evidence, or confirmed data inventory, severity cannot be elevated. Medical institution status elevates from low but lack of evidence details prevents higher classification.

No leak post was captured. The disclosure status indicates data was published, but the specific claims by the trisec group regarding encryption, exfiltration, or data contents are not documented in the available materials.

medium

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About trisec

**Trisec** is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in February 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting of business-critical sectors. The group has demonstrated a focused operational scope with only three documented victims to date, suggesting either a highly selective targeting approach or nascent operational capabilities. The origin and affiliations of Trisec remain largely unknown, with limited public intelligence available from major threat research organizations. Based on their targeting pattern across Sweden, Ireland, and Italy, the group appears to operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem, though definitive attribution data is not yet available. Trisec's attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers, though their sector targeting suggests they focus on organizations with critical business operations in healthcare, technology, and business services sectors. The group's specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, and whether they employ data exfiltration tactics prior to encryption have not been publicly detailed by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. No major high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware payments have been publicly attributed to Trisec by law enforcement agencies such as the FBI or CISA, likely due to the group's recent emergence and limited victim count. The group remains active as of current intelligence reporting, though their operational tempo appears limited compared to more established ransomware operations. The group has been linked to 3 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 16, 2024; most recent post February 19, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 19, 2024ki.se listed by trisecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by trisec

trisec has been linked to 3 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full trisec dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ki.se is reported in Sweden, a country with 111 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by trisec means ki.se 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, CERT-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on trisec'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.