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Help Me Grow Yolo County

listed as Help Me Grow Yolo · Claimed by Killsec · listed 1 year ago

17m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 19, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Killsec
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Feb 19, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Help Me Grow Yolo County is a program of the Northern California Children's Therapy Center and First 5 Yolo that provides free developmental screenings, early intervention services, and family support for children birth through 5 years old in Yolo County, California. The organization focuses on promoting healthy child development and connecting families with community resources, with emphasis on trauma-informed, culturally appropriate care.

Industry
Early Childhood Development & Intervention Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The organization handles sensitive information about vulnerable populations (young children and families enrolled in early intervention services), which includes PII. However, no proof of exfiltration was published and no specific data inventory was disclosed in the leak post.

The killsec group claims to have accessed Help Me Grow Yolo County's systems and published data. However, no specific details about what was exfiltrated, encrypted, or compromised are provided in the available leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Family records
  • Child developmental assessments
  • Program enrollment data
  • Contact information

What the group claims

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About killsec

killsec is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests opportunistic rather than geopolitically motivated operations. With 276 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, killsec appears to focus heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors, indicating either specific tooling designed for these environments or opportunistic targeting of organizations with valuable data and high pressure to restore operations quickly. Given the group's recent emergence and the lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity firms like Mandiant or law enforcement advisories from CISA or FBI, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented in authoritative sources. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence profile suggests they may be either a smaller operation or one that has not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations despite their substantial victim count. The group has been linked to 281 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post June 3, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 19, 2025Help Me Grow Yolo listed by killsecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by killsec

killsec has been linked to 281 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 Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Help Me Grow Yolo is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by killsec means Help Me Grow Yolo 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 killsec'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.