Disclosure context

About Dunghill_Leak

Dunghill_Leak is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that emerged in April 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting small to medium-sized organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited public reporting from major threat intelligence firms and law enforcement agencies. Based on their targeting patterns, the group appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against businesses in English-speaking countries, particularly the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States, as well as expanding operations into South American markets including Brazil and Bolivia, with a preference for victims in business services and technology sectors. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, Dunghill_Leak operates as a smaller-scale ransomware group compared to major threat actors, and specific details about their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports. The group's current operational status remains unclear, as limited public information prevents a comprehensive assessment of their ongoing activities or potential law enforcement disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 10, 2023; most recent post July 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 29, 2024Array Networks listed by Dunghill_Leakon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $79M

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Array Networks is reported in Taiwan, a country with 12 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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Array Networks

Claimed by Dunghill_Leak · listed 2 years ago

$79M

Ransom

demanded

27m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 29, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dunghill_Leak
Status: Data leaked
Country: Taiwan
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Feb 29, 2024
Ransom demanded: $79M

What the group claims

Array Networks is an American networking hardware company. It sells network traffic encryption tools. Was founded in 2000 by Lawrence Lu and is based in Milpitas, California. It received funding from the venture capital firm U.S. Venture Partners and the private equity firm H&Q Asia Pacific. On May 13, 2009, Array Networks became the first non-Taiwan company to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The company sold 54 million shares that had a total value of about $79 million. In 2009, 43% of the company's market share was in China, and its main product type sold there consisted of SSL VPN devices.

Sources

Victim sitearraynetworks.com

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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