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Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group

Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 4 hours ago

1.2 TB
Data size
145146 files records
Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 6, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blacknevas
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Logistics / Customs Brokerage
Listed on leak site
Oct 6, 2026
Data size
1.2 TB
Records
145146 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd, operating as The Rutherford Group, is a family-owned Canadian logistics provider founded in 1974. It offers customs brokerage (import/export clearance, CARM, surety bonds with PIP status), transportation services within Canada, the US, and internationally, and warehousing including bonded facilities and FDA-certified warehouses in Port Huron, Michigan.

Industry
Customs Brokerage & Cross-Border Logistics
Address
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Founded
1974

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 1.2 TB of data from a logistics company handling cross-border trade, customs compliance, and warehousing. Exposure includes operational logistics records, client shipment data, and regulatory compliance documentation. Supply-chain criticality and data volume warrant high severity.

BlackNevas claims to have exfiltrated 1.2 TB of data from the company. The group alleges the victim was compromised via Computer Country & Networks, a shared IT service provider. No specific ransom demand is stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customs brokerage records (import/export clearance files, CARM data, surety bond documentation)
  • Client logistics information (shipment tracking, carrier documentation)
  • Transportation and warehousing operational data
  • Potentially PII of business contacts and clients

What the group claims

A Canadian customs brokerage company operating under the brand The Rutherford Group. Founded in 1974 by Jack Rutherford in Stratford, Ontario. Provides customs brokerage, transportation, and warehousing services including bonded warehouses. Family-owned business (second generation). Serviced by Computer Country & Networks (www.computercountry.ca).

The leak post

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[ Mefa Group www.mefagroup.com.tr / MEFA Endüstri www.mefaendustri.com / and (Efachem, EcoPolymer, Milkrun Lojistik) https://send.exploit.in/#37608d72633301fc62801dfdf9111dbe!BsYvGiQz6WmjZo1VvPwTi8lU2K7prrPY2q6CdMORZn0List of files. For details and cooperation, write to Telegram https://t.me/BlackNevas or email [email protected] Group is a Turkish industrial group (headquartered in Ankara), founded in 2006. It operates in industrial manufacturing, plastics, rubber, processing, and logistics. The group has over 115,000 m² of production space, over 2,000 employees, and several facilities in Turkey, Romania, and Poland. Its main areas of focus are the automotive industry, white goods, and related industries.MILKRUN — Milkrun Lojistik, the group's logistics division. It provides integrated and smart logistics solutions for group companies and partners (focusing on efficiency, digitalization, and sustainability). It is not the Australian grocery delivery service of a similar name.Efachem, a division specia…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 57 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post October 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 6, 2026Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group listed by blacknevas on the group's public leak site
Data size
1.2 TB
Records
145146 files

Other recent disclosures by blacknevas

blacknevas has been linked to 57 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 Logistics / Customs Brokerage sector. Geographically, Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd / The Rutherford Group 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on blacknevas'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.