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Worthen Industries [You have three days]

Claimed by Alphv · listed 2 years ago

30m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 20, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Alphv
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jan 20, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Worthen Industries is a family-owned manufacturer of specialty adhesives, coatings, coated flexible substrates, and thermoplastic extrusion products serving diversified markets including aerospace, automotive, medical, and packaging. Founded in 1866 and headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, the company employs approximately 300 people and emphasizes sustainable innovation and customer-focused solutions.

Industry
Industrial Adhesives & Coatings Manufacturing
Address
3 East Spit Brook Road, Nashua, NH 03060-5783, United States
Employees
300
Founded
1866

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Company is listed on the group's leak site with published disclosure, indicating data exfiltration or operational disruption claim; however, no proof files, data inventory, or ransom demand are stated in the available post excerpt, limiting certainty of the threat.

The ALPHV group claims to have attacked Worthen Industries and has published this listing on their leak site. No specific details about encryption, data exfiltration, or data types are provided in the post.

medium

What the group claims

Worthen Industries Chemicals & Related Products · New Hampshire, United States · 300 Employees At Worthen Industries we specialize in sustainable solutions by applying technology and a customer-first approach to every challenge. The result isn’t just an industry-leading product. It’s a solution that ensures your processes, product quality, efficiency and environmental practices are optimized. We believe the future is worth doing right. Headquarters Location 3 E Spit Brook Rd, Nashua, New Hampshire, 03060, United States Social: https://www.facebook.com/worthenindustries/ https://twitter.com/WorthenInd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiZcdHfOhYBx2vHIMi03LQ https://www.linkedin.com/company/worthenindustries/

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About alphv

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat or Noberus, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and rapidly established itself as one of the most sophisticated and prolific ransomware operations observed by researchers at Mandiant, CISA, and the FBI. The group is suspected to have Russian-speaking origins and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, with well-documented links to former affiliates of the DarkSide and BlackMatter ransomware operations, suggesting a continuity of personnel and tradecraft across these successive rebrand events. ALPHV is technically distinguished by its use of Rust-based ransomware — an uncommon choice at the time of its emergence — which enabled cross-platform attacks against Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments; the group employs multiple initial access vectors including compromised credentials, phishing, and exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and routinely conducts double and triple extortion by exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption and threatening victims with public disclosure on their dedicated leak site, with some cases involving additional pressure through direct contact with victim customers and regulators. ALPHV has claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks against MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, Reddit, and healthcare provider Change Healthcare — the latter representing one of the most disruptive cyberattacks on the U.S. healthcare sector on record, with a reported ransom payment of approximately $22 million — and has accumulated over 731 known victims across the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular concentration in business services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and financial services sectors. In December 2023, the FBI and international partners conducted a disruption operation against ALPHV's infrastructure and released a decryption tool for victims; however, the group subsequently attempted to rebrand and continued operations before an apparent final collapse in March 2024, following an alleged exit scam against affiliates after the Change Healthcare ransom payment, with law enforcement officially attributing the group's infrastructure seizure shortly thereafter. The group has been linked to 731 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 3, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: BlackCat, Noberus.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 20, 2024Worthen Industries [You have three days] listed by alphvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by alphv

alphv has been linked to 731 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Worthen Industries [You have three days] is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by alphv means Worthen Industries [You have three days] 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 alphv'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.