Was Arrotex Pharmaceuticals hit by ransomware?

Arrotex Pharmaceuticals was listed by the morpheus ransomware operation (Australia), 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 morpheus ransomware group?

morpheus 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 Arrotex Pharmaceuticals breach?

morpheus published data attributed to Arrotex Pharmaceuticals. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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DBG Health (Arrotex Pharmaceuticals)

listed as Arrotex Pharmaceuticals · Claimed by Morpheus · listed 2 years ago

$92M

Ransom

demanded

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Morpheus
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jan 7, 2025
Ransom demanded: $92M
Estimated revenue: $92M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DBG Health is an Australian healthcare corporation operating multiple pharmaceutical and consumer health brands, with Arrotex as its largest prescription medicines division. The company serves approximately 15 million patients and consumers across prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, beauty and wellness brands, genetic testing, and pharmacy support services, with global operations across multiple continents.

Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & Distribution
Address: 459 Church Street, Level 3A, Richmond VIC 3121, Australia
Employees: 1400+

Attack summary

Severity: high — Healthcare sector company with access to sensitive patient and prescription data serving 15 million individuals; confirmed data exfiltration claim by ransomware group; $92M ransom demand indicates significant operational scope, though full data extent not yet disclosed.

The morpheus group claims to have conducted a cybersecurity incident against Arrotex Pharmaceuticals (part of DBG Health). The post references data exfiltration but states 'the extent of the cybersecurity incident is not completely revealed' in available published materials.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient/consumer data
Prescription records
Business operations data
Corporate communications

What the group claims

Website: https://dbghealth.com.au/arrotex/ Revenue: $92 Million The extent of the **cybersecurity incident** is not completely revealed in the published [article](https://dbghealth.com.au/important-

Sources

Victim sitedbghealth.com.au

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About morpheus

Morpheus is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in January 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a targeted approach to victim selection across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may be operating independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. With 14 documented victims across diverse sectors including healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and hospitality, Morpheus has shown a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Spain, India, Mexico, and Belgium, indicating either a broad operational reach or the use of automated targeting mechanisms that transcend geographic boundaries. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting from major cybersecurity firms and government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence available from established sources such as CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers, notable campaigns and high-profile incidents have not yet been extensively documented or analyzed in the public domain. Morpheus appears to remain active as of early 2025, though comprehensive assessment of their current operational status is limited by the nascent nature of their observed activities and the lack of extensive public reporting on their operations. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 7, 2025; most recent post July 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 7, 2025Arrotex Pharmaceuticals listed by morpheuson the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $92M

Other recent disclosures by morpheus

morpheus has been linked to 21 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Arrotex Pharmaceuticals is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by morpheus means Arrotex Pharmaceuticals 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on morpheus'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.