Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 109 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post May 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 3, 2025Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers is reported in Australia, a country with 368 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers

Claimed by Interlock · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 3, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Nov 3, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers, PLLC is a civil litigation law firm based in Greensboro, North Carolina. The firm represents and defends individuals and corporations across a wide range of civil matters in state and federal courts, including insurance coverage, medical malpractice, commercial litigation, personal injury, and intellectual property. The firm employs multiple partners and associates with decades of collective litigation experience.

Industry: Civil Litigation Law Firm
Address: Greensboro, NC, USA
Employees: 11-50

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A law firm's exfiltrated data almost certainly contains attorney-client privileged communications, PII of individual clients, confidential litigation strategies, financial records, and potentially sensitive personal or medical information across practice areas such as medical malpractice, personal injury, and disability claims — constituting regulated and highly sensitive data at scale.

The Interlock ransomware group claims to have compromised Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers due to allegedly weak security and has publicly published exfiltrated data. The group asserts that significant confidential information belonging to the company and its clients has been exposed.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client confidential information
Legal case files and documents
Attorney-client privileged communications
Corporate and individual client records
Internal firm data

What the group claims

Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers is a civil litigation law firm based in Greensboro, NC, specializing in defending individuals and corporations as well as representing claimants in diverse legal matters. Due to its easily accessible security, the company was compromised and published publicly! The company and its clients lost a significant amount of confidential information and data!

Sources

Victim sitepckb-law.com
Leak posthttp://ycgykop5f4te6yaptg57ze75kgnqo6u2e3yyeo3hkjgjxakjx2g5ksqd.onion/index.php?p=

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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