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 279 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post May 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 9, 2026Getly listed by killsecon 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, Getly is reported in NG, a country with 3 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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Getly

Claimed by killsec · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: killsec
Status: Data leaked
Country: NG
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Feb 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Getly (operated by Getly Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of Takeout Media Ltd) is a Nigeria- and Qatar-based travel super-app offering cross-border prepaid payment cards, multi-currency wallets, eSIMs, and a local vendor discovery tool for travellers, expats, and digital nomads. The company is registered as a Money Lending Agent under the High Court of Nigeria and is audited for compliance with the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR). It operates primarily in Nigeria and Qatar, backed by Qatar's Premier Innovation Hub.

Industry: Travel & Fintech Super-App (Payments, eSIMs, Vendor Discovery)
Address: 36 Sokode Crescent, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, Nigeria

Attack summary

Severity: high — Getly handles cross-border payments, prepaid debit cards, multi-currency wallets, and personal financial data for travellers and migrants, placing it squarely in regulated fintech territory. Data publication is confirmed (data_published status), and the nature of the platform means exfiltrated data likely includes PII and financial records subject to NDPR; however, the lack of stated data volume or explicit proof files prevents a 'critical' rating.

KillSec claims to have compromised Getly and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post itself is minimal with no ransom amount stated and only a single disclosure slot indicated. No specific data volume or file count is described in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

User account data
Financial transaction records
Payment card information
eSIM subscription details
Personal identification information (travellers/expats)
Contact and communication data

What the group claims

Price ??? Disclosures 0/1

Sources

Victim sitegetly.app

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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