Was Farella Braun + Martel LLP hit by ransomware?

Farella Braun + Martel LLP was listed by the SilentRansomGroup ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the SilentRansomGroup ransomware group?

SilentRansomGroup is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Farella Braun + Martel LLP breach?

SilentRansomGroup published data attributed to Farella Braun + Martel LLP. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Claimed by SilentRansomGroup · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: SilentRansomGroup
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Farella Braun + Martel LLP is a prominent full-service law firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm provides legal counsel across a broad range of practice areas including litigation, corporate, real estate, and intellectual property law. It is widely regarded as one of the leading independent law firms in Northern California.

Industry: Legal Services (Law Firm)
Address: 235 Montgomery Street, 17th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1962

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a law firm whose data inherently contains highly sensitive attorney-client privileged communications, PII of clients and staff, and confidential legal matter files. The disclosed status is 'data_published', meaning exfiltrated data has been publicly released, constituting a critical breach of regulated and privileged information at scale.

SilentRansomGroup claims to have exfiltrated data from Farella Braun + Martel LLP and has published the data after the firm reportedly offered $520,000 to prevent disclosure. The post indicates the data was ultimately released despite the payment offer.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Confidential attorney-client communications
Internal business records
Employee personal information
Financial records

What the group claims

They offered $520,000 to keep the data from being published. Farella Braun + Martel LLP is a leading N…

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About SilentRansomGroup

Based on the limited available information, SilentRansomGroup is a relatively new ransomware operation that first emerged in May 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their diverse geographic targeting including the United States, Germany, Canada, and Russia suggests either a sophisticated operation or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security researchers, though their targeting of business services, financial services, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors indicates they likely focus on organizations with both valuable data and ability to pay significant ransoms. With 93 known victims across multiple countries and sectors in a relatively short timeframe since May 2025, SilentRansomGroup has demonstrated notable activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom amounts have not been publicly disclosed by CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence firms. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though comprehensive technical analysis and attribution efforts by established security researchers are still developing given their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 120 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 6, 2025; most recent post June 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 8, 2026Farella Braun + Martel LLP listed by SilentRansomGroupon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by SilentRansomGroup

SilentRansomGroup has been linked to 120 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Farella Braun + Martel LLP is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by SilentRansomGroup means Farella Braun + Martel LLP 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 SilentRansomGroup'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.