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Nippon India Mutual Fund

listed as nipponindiaim · Claimed by Warlock · listed 1 year ago

13m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 11, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Warlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Jun 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nippon India Mutual Fund (NIMF), formerly Reliance Mutual Fund, is a major mutual fund provider in India. It operates as part of Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited, a subsidiary of Nippon Life Insurance Company (Japan) and Reliance Capital, offering investment solutions to individual and institutional investors.

Industry
Financial Services - Mutual Funds & Asset Management

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a major financial services company handling investor funds and personal financial information at scale; sensitive regulated sector with potential impact on thousands of investor records.

The Warlock group claims to have compromised Nippon India Mutual Fund and published exfiltrated data. No specific details on the scope or nature of accessed data are provided in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Investor records
  • Financial transaction data
  • Fund account information

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Nippon India Mutual Fund (NIMF), previously known as Reliance Mutual Fund, is one of the leading mutual fund companies in India. It is part of Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited, which is in turn a subsidiary of Nippon Life Insurance Company, Japan and Reliance Capital. The company offers a diverse range of investment solutions to individual and institutional investors.

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About warlock

Warlock is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in June 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern spans both Western nations and Russia, suggesting possible opportunistic rather than geopolitically-motivated operations. Based on available victim data, Warlock has demonstrated capability to compromise organizations across diverse sectors including technology, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare, with their attack methodology and technical capabilities requiring further analysis by security researchers to establish definitive patterns regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration tactics. While the group has accumulated 78 documented victims across the United States, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and Turkey within their initial months of operation, insufficient public reporting from CISA, FBI, or major security firms exists to detail specific notable campaigns, ransom demands, or high-profile incidents. Given the group's recent emergence in mid-2025, their current operational status and potential evolution remain under observation by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 11, 2025; most recent post November 6, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 11, 2025nipponindiaim listed by warlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by warlock

warlock has been linked to 78 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,192 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nipponindiaim is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by warlock means nipponindiaim 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-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on warlock'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.